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English

Etymology

merle +? -ed

Adjective

merled (not comparable)

1. With a coat in a merle pattern.

   a merled dog

Anagrams

• Dremel, Medler, Melder, melder, red elm

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m?l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)l

Etymology 1

From Middle English merle, from Old French merle (French merle), from Latin merula (“blackbird”) (whence the directly borrowed Middle English merule, and compare the taxonomic name Turdus merula), from Proto-Indo-European *h?mes- (“black, blackbird”). Confer Breton moualch (“ouzel”), Welsh mwyalch (“blackbird, thrush”). Distantly related to the synonymous ouzel.

Noun

merle (plural merles)

1. The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula.
2. Any blackbird.

Translations

Etymology 2

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Noun

merle (uncountable)

1. A type of mottled colouration on dogs.

Anagrams

• Elmer, Lemer

French

Etymology

From Latin merula, the word for the male blackbird being mostly female until the 16th century. Probable influence of the Late Latin masculine form merulus (compare Italian merlo, Spanish mirlo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??l/

Noun

merle m (plural merles, feminine merlesse or merlette)

1. blackbird
2. Eurasian blackbird (Turdus merula)

Synonyms

• (blackbird): (Louisiana) tchoque

Derived terms

• faute de grives on mange des merles
• grossier merle

Further reading

Anagrams

• mêler

Italian

Noun

merle f

1. plural of merla