melé

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mele"

Portuguese

Noun

melé m (plural melés)

1. (Brazil, card games) joker (playing card that features a picture of a jester)

   Synonyms: (Brazil) curinga, (Portugal) jóquer

Further reading

• “melé”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “melé”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Alternative forms

• melée, mêlée

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈle/ [meˈle]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: me‧lé

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French mêlée.

Noun

melé f (plural melés)

1. (rugby) scrum

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

melé

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of melar

Further reading

• “melé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “melé”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA