different between meze vs mee

English

Alternative forms

• mezze, mazzeh, mazze

Etymology

From Turkish meze and Greek ????? (mezés), both from Ottoman Turkish ???? (meze), from Persian ???? (maze, “taste, snack”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?ze?/

Noun

meze (countable and uncountable, plural mezes or mezedes)

1. Small portions of starters typical of Turkish and Greek cuisine (equivalent to Spanish tapas or Hawaiian pu pu) often served as a light meal with pita.

Further reading

• meze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• mzee

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?z?]

Noun

meze f

1. inflection of mez:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adverb

meze

1. in the middle of, amid
   • 1908, J. Arbes, trans. by Jos. Gr?a, Rakontoj

     Lia rigardo ekrondis en la malri?a, mizera ?ambreto kaj fiksis sur la blondulino, sidanta en luksa balvesto meze de plej mizera meblaro plej sor?e lumigita.

     His regard started around the poor, miserable small room and fixed upon the blond woman sitting in luxurious party clothing in the middle of most miserable furniture most bewitchingly illuminated.

   • 1999, Mark Twain, trans. by Edwin Grobe, "Konfeso de Mortanto", Tri Noveloj

     Imagu kion li devis eksenti veki?inte meze de tiu senvo?a silento kaj ?irka?spektadinte tiun malgajan mortintaron!

     Think what it must have been to wake up in the midst of that voiceless hush and look out over that grim congregation of the dead!

   • 2006, Henrik Ibsen, trans. by Odd Tangerud, La kolonoj de la socio, ?ISBN

     Meze sur la kontra?a pordo estas pli granda enir-pordo.

     On the middle of the opposite door is a larger entrance door.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• mèza

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (meze), from Persian ???? (maze, “taste, snack”). Akin to mezètluk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?ze/
• Hyphenation: me?ze

Noun

mèze n (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (regional) snack, bite

Declension

Derived terms

• mèzetiti
• zamèzetiti

References

• “meze” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• Škalji?, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 462

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English m? (“me”). More at me.

Pronoun

mee (personal pronoun)

1. Obsolete form of me.
   • 1606 — Shakespeare, Macbeth 7.7

     Macb. Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so;
     

     For it hath Cow'd my better part of man: […]

2. obsolete emphatic of me
   • 1667, Milton, Paradise Lost Book III

     Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life
     I offer, on mee let thine anger fall;
     Account mee man; […]

Etymology 2

Borrowing Min Nan ??? (m?).

Noun

mee (uncountable)

1. (cooking, Malaysia, Singapore) Noodles, or a dish containing noodles.

Anagrams

• -eme, EME, Eme, eem, eme

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• mé (obsolete)

Etymology

From Dutch mee, from older mede with the frequent loss of intervocalic -d-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m???/

Adverb

mee

1. (postpositional) adverbial form of met

Dutch

Etymology

From older mede with the frequent loss of intervocalic -d- (cf. kou vs. koude ["cold"]; slee vs. slede ["sleigh"]). The forms mee and mede were subsequently distributed to different senses.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?/
• Hyphenation: mee
• Rhymes: -e?

Adverb

mee

1. (postpositional) adverbial form of met
2. along, together (i.e. with one)

Inflection

Derived terms

• meebetalen
• meebrengen
• meedoen
• meegaan
• meelopen
• meerekenen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: mee

Adjective

mee (used only predicatively, not comparable)

1. able to follow

Estonian

Noun

mee

1. genitive singular of mesi

Indonesian

Noun

mee (first-person possessive meeku, second-person possessive meemu, third-person possessive meenya)

1. Misspelling of mi.

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?/
  • Rhymes: -e?
  • Homophone: Mee

Conjunction

mee

1. Alternative form of mä

Malay

Noun

mee

1. Misspelling of mi.

Manx

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish mé, from Proto-Celtic *m?, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).

Pronoun

mee (emphatic mish)

1. I, me

Etymology 2

From Old Irish mí, from Proto-Celtic *m?ns, from Proto-Indo-European *m?h?n?s (“moon, month”).

Noun

mee f (genitive singular mee, plural meeghyn)

1. month
   • Mee Houney, November
   • Mee Luanistyn, August
   • mee ny heayst, lunar month
   • mee ny molley, honeymoon

Mutation

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *m?, from Proto-Germanic *maiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?/

Pronoun

mêe

1. more

Alternative forms

• mêer
• mêre

Adverb

mêe

1. more, to a greater degree

   Antonym: min

2. more often, more frequently

   Antonym: min

3. better
4. rather
5. later, further on in time
6. also, furthermore

Alternative forms

• mêer
• mêre

Descendants

• Dutch: meer

Further reading

• “mee (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “mee (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me?/

Adjective

mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)

1. Alternative form of mèje; feminine plural of mìo

Pronoun

mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)

1. Alternative form of mèje; feminine plural of mìo

Sinacantán

Adjective

mee

1. green or blue

Related terms

• apparently meelatí (“yellow”)

References

• Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)

Spanish

Verb

mee

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mear.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mear.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mear.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English me, Old English m?, from Proto-Indo-European, from Proto-Germanic *miz, dative of *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *me.

Pronoun

mee

1. oblique of ich: me

Determiner

mee

1. my

Related terms

• ich
• meezil