mel

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mel"

Translingual

Symbol

mel

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Central Melanau.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Central Melanau terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Homophones: Mel, mell

Etymology 1

Shortening of melody.

Noun

mel (plural mels)

1. (psychoacoustics) A unit of pitch on a scale of pitches perceived by listeners to be equally spaced from one another.

Further reading

• Mel scale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Latin mel (“honey”). Doublet of mell.

Noun

mel (uncountable)

1. Honey, when used as an ingredient in cosmetic products.

Anagrams

• EML, Elm, L.E.M., LEM, Lem, MLE, elm

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin milium.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

mel m (definite meli)

1. common millet

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *meli (“honey”) (compare Welsh mêl, Old Irish mil), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid, whence also Latin mel (“honey”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛl/

Noun

mel m

1. honey

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmɛl]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

mel f (plural mels)

1. honey

Derived terms

• aiguamel
• lluna de mel
• melat
• melós

Related terms

• mel·lífer
• mel·liflu

Etymology 2

Inherited from Late Latin mēlum, variant of mālum (“apple”).

Noun

mel m (plural mels)

1. (Balearic, anatomy) cheekbone

   Synonym: pòmul

Etymology 3

Pronoun

mel

1. (archaic) contraction of me +‎ el (in medieval Catalan, nowadays written as me'l)

Further reading

• “mel”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mel”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “mel” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mel” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈméːɬ]

Noun

mēl inan

1. second-person singular possessive singular of ēlli; (it is) your liver.

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mel, from Proto-Celtic *meli (“honey”) (compare Welsh mêl, Old Irish mil), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid, whence also Latin mel (“honey”).

Noun

mel m

1. honey

Derived terms

• arth mel (“sun bear”)
• gwenen mel (“honeybees”)
• kriben vel (“honeycomb”)
• mel kriv (“raw honey”)
• melvis (“honeymoon”)

Mutation

Mutation of mel

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
mel	vel	unchanged	unchanged	fel	vel

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛl]

Verb

mel

1. second-person singular imperative of mlít

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mel

1. thousand

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse mjǫl, from Proto-Germanic *melwą, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, rub, break up”). Related to male (“grind, crush”), mølle (“mill”) (via Latin), and to muld (“soil”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

mel n (singular definite melet, not used in plural form)

1. flour

Declension

Declension of mel

neuter gender	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	mel	melet
genitive	mels	melets

Further reading

• “mel” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “mel” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dhuwal

Noun

mel

1. eye

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mel, from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛl]

Noun

mel m (plural meles)

1. honey

Derived terms

• augamel
• melado
• melaza
• meleiro
• melindre

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “mel”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “mel”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mel”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mel”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mel”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Gothic

Romanization

mēl

1. romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻

Istriot

Etymology

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

Noun

mel

1. 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