mele

See also: Mele, melé, mêle, melē, mēle, mêlé, mēlē, and меле

English

Etymology 1

From Hawaiian mele.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪleɪ/

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, p. 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

• LEEM, leme

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Aiwoo

Verb

mele

1. to fly

References

• . 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.

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Corsican

Etymology

From Latin mel, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid

Noun

mele

1. honey

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛlɛ]

Verb

1. third-person singular present of mlít

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meːlə/, [ˈmeːlə]

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)

1. flour (to apply flour to something)

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Gothic

Romanization

mēlē

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌴

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Hausa

Noun

mēlē m (possessed form mēlen)

1. loss of pigmentation

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Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *umele

Noun

1. chant, song, poem

Usage notes

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

Verb

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

References

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

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Italian

Noun

mele f

1. plural of mela - apples

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) mēle

1. ablative singular of mēlēs

References

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

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Latvian

Etymology

From melis (“liar”) +‎ -e (“fem.”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

mele f (5th declension, masculine form: melis)

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

   nekaunīga mele ― shameless (female) liar

Declension

Declension of mele (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	mele	meles
accusative (akuzatīvs)	meli	meles
genitive (ģenitīvs)	meles	meļu
dative (datīvs)	melei	melēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	meli	melēm
locative (lokatīvs)	melē	melēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	mele	meles

Derived terms

• melīgs, melīgums
• melot

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Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• melow, meale, meele

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛːl(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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

mele

1. Alternative form of medle

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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

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Portuguese

Verb

mele

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈme.le]

Pronoun

mele

1. feminine plural of meu
2. neuter plural of meu

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Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin mel, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid

Noun

mele ?

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1. honey

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Zazaki

Etymology

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

Noun

mele

1. (zoology) grasshopper, locust