mela

See also: Mela, mêla, měla, meļa, mela-, mēļa, and mēļā

English

Etymology

From Hindi मेला (melā), from Sanskrit.

Noun

mela (plural melas)

  1. A Hindu religious festival; loosely, a South Asian fair. [from 19th c.]
    • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 53:
      Kalua was a man of unusual height and powerful build: in any fair, festival or mela, he could always be spotted towering above the crowd—even the jugglers on stilts were usually not so tall as he.
    • 2011, Deepika Phukan, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, The Story of Felanee:
      Every year there was a mela in the small village where Jutimala lived and Khitish would send three workers to set up a stall there.

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mela/
  • Hyphenation: me‧la

Noun

mela f

  1. A melee; a brawl

Declension

Synonyms

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mela, of Finno-Permic origin.[1] Also *melä has been suggested earlier.[2] Cognates include Karelian mela[3], Ludian mela (“oar”), Veps mela (“oar”), Estonian mõla (“paddle, oar”), Votic mõla (“paddle, oar”), Livvi mela (“paddle, oar”), Northern Sami mealli (“oar”), Erzya [script needed] (miľe, “oar, paddle”), Moksha [script needed] (miľä, “oar, paddle”), [script needed] (mǝľä), Komi-Zyrian [script needed] (maľ, “oar”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmelɑ/
  • Hyphenation: me‧la
  • Rhymes: -elɑ

Noun

mela

  1. paddle (oar-like implement)
  2. (slang) dick (penis)

Declension

Inflection of mela (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative mela melat
genitive melan melojen
partitive melaa meloja
illative melaan meloihin
singular plural
nominative mela melat
accusative nom. mela melat
gen. melan
genitive melan melojen
melainrare
partitive melaa meloja
inessive melassa meloissa
elative melasta meloista
illative melaan meloihin
adessive melalla meloilla
ablative melalta meloilta
allative melalle meloille
essive melana meloina
translative melaksi meloiksi
instructive — meloin
abessive melatta meloitta
comitative — meloineen

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. ↑ mela in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
  2. ↑ Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004-2005). Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja. Juva: WSOY. →ISBN.
  3. ↑ Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija (editors). 1992–2000. Suomen sanojen alkuperä ('The Origin of Finnish Words'). Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus/Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. →ISBN.

Anagrams

Gothic

Romanization

mēla

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌰

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *mela, from melum, from Latin mālum.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mela f (plural mele)

  1. apple (fruit)

Synonyms

Derived terms

Anagrams

Karelian

Noun

mela

  1. paddle

Maltese

Adverb

mela

  1. certainly

Portuguese

Verb

mela

  1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of melar
  2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of melar

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Mehl

Noun

mela f (Cyrillic spelling мела)

  1. (Kajkavian) flour

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish mela.

Noun

mela

  1. paddle (rowing tool)

Inflection

Inflection of mela
nominative sing. mela
genitive sing. melan
partitive sing. melad
partitive plur. meloid
singular plural
nominative mela melad
accusative melan melad
genitive melan meloiden
partitive melad meloid
essive-instructive melan meloin
translative melaks meloikš
inessive melas meloiš
elative melaspäi meloišpäi
illative ? meloihe
adessive melal meloil
ablative melalpäi meloilpäi
allative melale meloile
abessive melata meloita
comitative melanke meloidenke
prolative meladme meloidme
approximative I melanno meloidenno
approximative II melannoks meloidennoks
egressive melannopäi meloidennopäi
terminative I ? meloihesai
terminative II melalesai meloilesai
terminative III melassai —
additive I ? meloihepäi
additive II melalepäi meloilepäi

References

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “весло”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Westrobothnian

Preposition

mela

  1. Alternative form of mila
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