different between pomme vs mele

English

Alternative forms

• pomey

Etymology

Borrowed from French pomme, ultimately from Latin poma. Doublet of pome.

Noun

pomme (plural pomeis)

1. (heraldry) A roundel vert (green circular spot), resembling an apple.

References

• Charles Mackinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, Frederick Warne and Co., p. 60.

Estonian

Noun

pomme

1. partitive plural of pomm

French

Etymology

From Old French pomme, pome, pume, from Latin p?ma, plural of p?mum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular. Compare English pome.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?m/

Noun

pomme f (plural pommes)

1. apple (fruit)
2. Any of several objects of approximately the same shape and size.
3. The fruit part of several vegetables.
4. (colloquial) The head.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Further reading

• “pomme” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Alternative forms

• paomme (Guernsey)
• poume (continental Norman)
• poumme (Jersey)
• pum (Sark)

Etymology

From Latin pomme, from Latin p?ma, plural of p?mum (“fruit”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pomme f (plural pommes)

1. (Jersey) apple

Derived terms

Old French

Noun

pomme f (oblique plural pommes, nominative singular pomme, nominative plural pommes)

1. Alternative form of pome

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