mele

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mele"

Languages (21)

English

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English

Etymology 1

From Hawaiian mele.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪleɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪleɪ

Noun

mele (plural mele or meles)

1. A chant in Polynesia, especially Hawaii, typically in praise of a leader or to commemorate some significant event. [from 19th c.]
   • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 49:

     Lili‘u set to work assisting Fornander by translating mele and legends for him.

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Noun

mele (plural meles)

1. Alternative form of mell.

Verb

mele (third-person singular simple present meles, present participle meling, simple past and past participle meled)

1. Alternative form of mell.

Anagrams

• leme, Emel, Elem, elem., elem, LEEM

Äiwoo

Verb

mele

1. to fly

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Corsican

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Noun

mele

1. honey

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛlɛ]

Verb

mele

1. third-person singular present of mlít

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse mjǫl, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeːlə/, [ˈme̝ːlə]

Verb

mele (imperative mel, infinitive at mele, present tense meler, past tense melede, perfect tense har melet)

1. flour (to apply flour to something)

Gothic

Romanization

mēlē

1. romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌴

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /méː.léː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [méː.léː]

Noun

mēlē m (possessed form mēlen)

1. loss of pigmentation

Hawaiian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.le/, [ˈmɛ.lɛ]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *umele (compare with Māori umere).

Noun

mele

1. chant, song, poem

Usage notes

• May take either ke (for etymological reasons) or ka, however, ke is more common.

Derived terms

• ʻahamele (“concert”)
• mele pāleoleo (“rap, hip-hop”)

Verb

mele

1. (transitive) to sing, chant
2. (stative) to be merry

Etymology 2

Derived from meli (“honey”)? (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

mele

1. (stative) to be yellow

Derived terms

• melemele (“yellow”)

References

• Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1986

Italian

Noun

mele f

1. plural of mela

Latin

Noun

mēle

1. ablative singular of mēlēs

References

• “mele”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Latvian

Etymology

From melis (“liar”) +‎ -e (“fem.”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

mele f (5th declension, male equivalent)

1. (female) liar, deceiver (someone who is tells lies, who deceives others)

   nekaunīga mele ― shameless (female) liar

Declension

Declension of mele (5th)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative	mele	meles
genitive	meles	meļu
dative	melei	melēm
accusative	meli	meles
instrumental	meli	melēm
locative	melē	melēs
vocative	mele	meles

Derived terms

• melīgs, melīgums
• melot

Lingala

Verb

mele

1. to drink
2. to swallow

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English melu, from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.

Alternative forms

• meale, meele, melow

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ̞ːl(ə)/

Noun

mele (uncountable)

1. Flour, especially that of wheat.
2. The meal of wheat or other grains.

Derived terms

• otemele

Descendants

• English: meal
• Scots: meil, mele
• Yola: mele, mell

References

• “mēle, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

mele

1. alternative form of medle

Etymology 3

Noun

mele

1. alternative form of mylne

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛːlə]
• (Castelmezzano) IPA^(key): [ˈmeːlə]

Noun

mele m (uncountable)

1. honey

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Giacco, Giuseppe (2003), “mèle”, in Schedario Napoletano

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• mjøle

Etymology

From mel (“flour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹meːlə/
• Rhymes: -¹eːlə

Verb

mele (imperative mel, present tense meler, passive meles, simple past mela or melet or melte, past participle mela or melet or melt, present participle melende)

1. to flour (to apply flour to something)

Related terms

• meling

References

• “mele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “mele” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.li/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.li/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.le/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.lɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛli, (Portugal) -ɛlɨ
• Homophone: (Southern Portugal) mel
• Hyphenation: me‧le

Verb

mele

1. inflection of melar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin meae, feminine plural of meus, itself from Proto-Italic *meos, with an epenthetic -l- added for ease of pronunciation due to the two adjacent vowels, cf. tale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.le/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ele
• Hyphenation: me‧le

Pronoun

mele

1. inflection of meu:
   1. feminine/neuter plural
   2. genitive/dative feminine singular

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• meli (Campidanese)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Noun

mele m (plural meles)

1. honey

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

mele (Cyrillic spelling меле)

1. feminine plural active past participle of mesti

Yola

Etymology 1

From Middle English mele (“flour”), from Old English melu, from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.

Alternative forms

• mell

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛːl/, /mɛl/
• Homophone: meale

Noun

mele

1. meal (coarse flour)

Derived terms

• ameal

Etymology 2

Noun

mele

1. alternative form of mile (“mill”)
   • 1788, A YOLA ZONG.:

     Licke a mope an a mele; he gazt ing a mize,

     Like a fool in a mill, he looked in amazement;

Zazaki

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Iranian *madaxa. Cognate to Persian ملخ (malax), Ossetian мӕты́х (mætýx)

Noun

mele

1. (zoology) grasshopper, locust