mele
English
Etymology 1
From Hawaiian mele.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmeɪleɪ/
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, page 49:
- Lili‘u set to work assisting Fornander by translating mele and legends for him.
- 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 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
- LEEM, leme
Aiwoo
Verb
mele
- to fly
References
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 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
- honey
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɛlɛ]
Verb
mele
- third-person singular present of mlít
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse mjǫl, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meːlə/, [ˈme̝ːlə]
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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /méː.léː/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [méː.léː]
Noun
mēlē m (possessed form mēlen)
- loss of pigmentation
Hawaiian
Etymology
From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *umele.
Noun
mele
- chant, song, poem
Usage notes
- May take either ke (for etymological reasons) or ka, however, ke is more common.
Verb
mele
- (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
- plural of mela
Latin
Noun
mēle
- 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
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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
| 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
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): /ˈmɛːl(ə)/
Noun
mele (uncountable)
- Flour, especially that of wheat.
- The meal of wheat or other grains.
Derived terms
- otemele
Descendants
- English: meal
- Scots: meil, mele
- Yola: mele, mell
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
mele
- Alternative form of medle
Noun
mele
- Alternative form of mylne
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)
- to flour (to apply flour to something)
Related terms
- meling
References
- “mele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “mele” in The Ordnett Dictionary
Portuguese
Verb
mele
- inflection of melar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈme.le]
Pronoun
mele
- feminine/neuter plural of meu
Sardinian
Alternative forms
- meli (Campidanese)
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.
Noun
mele m (plural meles)
- honey
Serbo-Croatian
Participle
mele (Cyrillic spelling меле)
- feminine plural active past participle of mesti
Yola
Alternative forms
- mell
Etymology
From Middle English mele (“flour”), from Old English melu, from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.
Noun
mele
- meal (coarse flour)
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 56
Zazaki
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Iranian *madaxa. Cognate to Persian ملخ (malax), Ossetian мӕты́х (mætýx)
Noun
mele ?
- (zoology) grasshopper, locust