mele

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

English

Etymology 1

From Hawaiian mele.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) 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

Aiwoo

Verb

mele

  1. to fly

References

Corsican

Noun

mele

  1. honey

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meːlə/, [ˈmeːlə]

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

Noun

mēlē m (possessed form mēlen)

  1. loss of pigmentation

Hawaiian

Noun

mele

  1. chant, song, poem

Verb

mele

  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

Italian

Noun

mele f

  1. plural of mela - apples

Latin

Noun

mēle

  1. ablative singular of meles

References

Latvian

Etymology

From melis (“liar”) +‎ -e (“fem.”).

Pronunciation

(file)

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

Derived terms

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • melow
  • meale

Etymology

From Old English melu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛːl(ə)/

Noun

mele (uncountable)

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

Descendants

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)
  • meling

References

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

Portuguese

Verb

mele

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of melar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of melar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of melar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of melar

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈme.le]

Pronoun

mele

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

Sardinian

Noun

mele

  1. honey

Zazaki

Noun

mele ?

  1. (zoology) grasshopper, locust
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