# mele
## English
### Etymology 1

From Hawaiian mele.

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈmeɪleɪ/
* Rhymes: -eɪleɪ

#### 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.

### 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

* leme, Emel, Elem, elem., elem, LEEM

## Äiwoo
### 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, number 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: [ˈmɛlɛ]

### Verb

mele
* third-person singular present of mlít

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse mjǫl, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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: /méː.léː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [méː.léː]

### Noun

mēlē m (possessed form mēlen)
* loss of pigmentation

## Hawaiian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈme.le/, [ˈmɛ.lɛ]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *umele (compare with Maori umere).

#### Noun

mele
* chant, song, poem

##### Usage notes

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

##### Derived terms

* ʻahamele (“concert”)

#### Verb

mele
* (transitive) to sing, chant
* (stative) to be merry

#### References

* ↑ Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “mele”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 245
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “umere”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

### Etymology 2

Derived from meli (“honey”)? (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Verb

mele
* (stative) to be yellow

##### Derived terms

* melemele (“yellow”)

#### 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

* 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

#### 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: /ˈmɛːl(ə)/, /ˈmæːl(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

##### References

* “mēle, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

mele
* Alternative form of medle

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

mele
* Alternative form of mylne

## Neapolitan
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

### Pronunciation

* (Naples) IPA: [ˈmɛːlə]
* (Castelmezzano) IPA: [ˈmeːlə]

### Noun

mele m (uncountable)
* honey

### References

* AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
* Giacco, Giuseppe (2003) “mèle”, in Schedario Napoletano

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* mjøle

### Etymology

From mel (“flour”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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
### Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɛ.li/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɛ.li/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɛ.le/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmɛ.lɨ/
* Rhymes: -ɛli
* Homophone: mel (Portugal)
* Hyphenation: me‧le

### Verb

mele
* inflection of melar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈme.le/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ele
* Hyphenation: me‧le

### Pronoun

mele
* inflection of meu:
** feminine/neuter plural
** genitive/dative feminine singular

## Sardinian
### Alternative forms

* meli (Campidanese)

### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

### Noun

mele m (plural meles)
* honey

### References

* AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

## Serbo-Croatian
### Participle

mele (Cyrillic spelling меле)
* feminine plural active past participle of mesti

## Yola
### Etymology 1

From Middle English mele (“flour”), from Old English melu, from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.

#### Alternative forms

* mell

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛːl/, /mɛl/
* Homophone: meale

#### Noun

mele
* meal (coarse flour)

##### Derived terms

* ameal

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mele
* Alternative form of meale (“feast, dinner”)

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 56 & 61

## Zazaki
### Etymology

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

### Noun

mele
* (zoology) grasshopper, locust