mele
English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
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Noun
mele (plural mele or meles)
- 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, p. 49:
- Lili‘u set to work assisting Fornander by translating mele and legends for him.
- 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 49:
Etymology 2
Variant forms.
Noun
mele (plural meles)
- Alternative form of mell
Verb
mele (third-person singular simple present meles, present participle meling, simple past and past participle meled)
- Alternative form of mell
Anagrams
Aiwoo
Verb
mele
- to fly
References
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Corsican
Etymology
From Latin mel, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid
Noun
mele
Czech
Pronunciation
Verb
Danish
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Old Norse mjǫl, from Proto-Germanic *melwą
Verb
mele (imperative mel, infinitive at mele, present tense meler, past tense melede, perfect tense har melet)
- flour (to apply flour to something)
Gothic
Romanization
mēlē
- Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌴
Hausa
Noun
mēlē m (possessed form mēlen)
- loss of pigmentation
Hawaiian
Etymology
From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *umele
Noun
Usage notes
Verb
- (transitive) to sing, chant
- (stative) to be yellow
- (stative) to be merry
References
- Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1986
Italian
Noun
mele f
Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) mēle
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: | (file) |
Noun
mele f (5th declension, masculine form: melis)
- (female) liar, deceiver (someone who is tells lies, who deceives others)
- nekaunīga mele ― shameless (female) liar
Declension
Derived terms
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
mele (uncountable)
- Flour, especially that of wheat.
- The meal of wheat or other grains.
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
mele
- Alternative form of medle
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Etymology
From mel (“flour”)
Pronunciation
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)
- to flour (to apply flour to something)
Related terms
References
Portuguese
Verb
mele
Romanian
Pronunciation
Pronoun
mele
Sardinian
Etymology
From Latin mel, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid
Noun
mele ?
This entry needs an inflection-table template.
Zazaki
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Iranian *madaxa. Cognate to Persian ملخ (malax), Ossetian мӕты́х (mætýx)
Noun
mele
- English terms derived from Hawaiian
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English indeclinable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English verbs
- Äiwoo lemmas
- Äiwoo verbs
- Corsican terms derived from Latin
- Corsican terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Corsican lemmas
- Corsican nouns
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Danish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Danish lemmas
- Danish verbs
- Gothic non-lemma forms
- Gothic romanizations
- Hausa lemmas
- Hausa nouns
- Hausa masculine nouns
- Hawaiian terms derived from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian
- Hawaiian transitive verbs
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian noun plural forms
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin noun forms
- Latvian terms suffixed with -e
- Latvian terms with audio links
- Latvian lemmas
- Latvian nouns
- Latvian feminine nouns
- Latvian terms with usage examples
- Latvian fifth declension nouns
- Latvian noun forms
- Middle English terms inherited from Old English
- Middle English terms derived from Old English
- Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Middle English uncountable nouns
- enm:Grains
- Norwegian Bokmål terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Norwegian Bokmål/¹eːlə
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål verbs
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese verb forms
- Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Romanian non-lemma forms
- Romanian adjective forms
- Sardinian terms derived from Latin
- Sardinian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Sardinian lemmas
- Sardinian nouns
- Zazaki terms derived from Proto-Iranian
- Zazaki lemmas
- Zazaki nouns
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