different between meze vs mele

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 Hawaiian mele.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?me?le?/

Noun

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, page 49:

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Noun

mele (plural meles)

1. Alternative form of mell

Verb

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

1. Alternative form of mell

Anagrams

• LEEM, leme

Aiwoo

Verb

mele

1. to fly

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) , “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Corsican

Etymology

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

Noun

mele

1. honey

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?l?]

Verb

mele

1. third-person singular present of mlít

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?l?/, [?me?l?]

Etymology

From Old Norse mj?l, from Proto-Germanic *melw?

Verb

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

1. flour (to apply flour to something)

Gothic

Romanization

m?l?

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Hausa

Noun

m?l? m (possessed form m?len)

1. loss of pigmentation

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *umele

Noun

mele

1. chant, song, poem

Usage notes

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

Verb

mele

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

References

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

Italian

Noun

mele f

1. plural of mela

Latin

Noun

m?le

1. ablative singular of m?l?s

References

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

Latvian

Etymology

From melis (“liar”) +? -e (“fem.”).

Pronunciation

Noun

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

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

Declension

Derived terms

• mel?gs, mel?gums
• melot

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English melu, from Proto-Germanic *melw?.

Alternative forms

• melow, meale, meele

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??l(?)/

Noun

mele (uncountable)

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

Derived terms

• otemele

Descendants

• English: meal
• Scots: meil, mele

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

mele

1. Alternative form of medle

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• mjøle

Etymology

From mel (“flour”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹me?l?/
• Rhymes: -¹e?l?

Verb

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)

Related terms

• meling

References

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

Portuguese

Verb

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

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?me.le]

Pronoun

mele

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

Sardinian

Etymology

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

Noun

mele m (plural meles)

1. honey

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

mele (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. feminine plural active past participle of mesti

Yola

Alternative forms

mell

Noun

mele

1. meal
2. flour

References

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)

Zazaki

Etymology

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

Noun

mele ?

1. (zoology) grasshopper, locust