mele

From Hawaiian mele.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪleɪ/

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.

Variant forms.

mele (plural meles)

1. Alternative form of mell

mele (third-person singular simple present meles, present participle meling, simple past and past participle meled)

1. Alternative form of mell

• LEEM, leme

mele

1. to fly

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

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

mele

1. honey

• IPA^(key): /meːlə/, [ˈmeːlə]

From Old Norse mjǫl, from Proto-Germanic *melwą

mele (imperative mel, infinitive at mele, present tense meler, past tense melede, perfect tense har melet)

1. flour (to apply flour to something)

mēlē

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌴

mēlē m (possessed form mēlen)

1. loss of pigmentation

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *umele

mele

1. chant, song, poem

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

mele

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

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

mele f

1. plural of mela - apples

mēle

1. ablative singular of meles

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

From melis (“liar”) +‎ -e (“fem.”).

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

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

   nekaunīga mele ― shameless (female) liar

• melīgs, melīgums
• melot

• melow, meale, meele

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛːl(ə)/

mele (uncountable)

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

• otemele

• English: meal
• Scots: meil, mele

• mjøle

From mel (“flour”)

• IPA^(key): /¹meːlə/
• Rhymes: -¹eːlə

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈme.le]

mele

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

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

mele ? (please provide plural)

1. honey

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

mele ?

1. (zoology) grasshopper, locust