mela

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mela"

English

Etymology

From Urdu میلہ (mela)/Hindi मेला (melā), from Sanskrit मेलक (melaka).

Noun

mela (plural melas)

1. A Hindu religious festival.
2. A South Asian fair. [from 19th c.]
   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 53:

     Kalua was a man of unusual height and powerful build: in any fair, festival or mela, he could always be spotted towering above the crowd—even the jugglers on stilts were usually not so tall as he.

   • 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:

     Every year there was a mela in the small village where Jutimala lived and Khitish would send three workers to set up a stall there.

Anagrams

• Elma, amel, -meal, meal, alme, Lema, male-, Male, male, leam, lame, lamé, Leam, Elam, Malé, lema

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛla]
• Hyphenation: me‧la

Etymology 1

Noun

mela f

1. melee

   Synonyms: tlačenice, zmatek, chaos

2. brawl

   Synonym: rvačka

Declension

Declension of mela (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	mela	mely
genitive	mely	mel
dative	mele	melám
accusative	melu	mely
vocative	melo	mely
locative	mele	melách
instrumental	melou	melami

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mela

1. masculine singular present transgressive of mlít

Further reading

• “mela”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “mela”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989