Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mela

/ˈmeɪlə/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.56 in modern English

Syllables: mela
IPA: /ˈmeɪlə/

6

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Hindu religious festival.

noun

A South Asian fair.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Hindi

Word Breakdown

Root: میلہ, मेला, मेलक

Inflected Forms

melas (plural)

Homonyms

mailer (non-rhotic pronunciations) malar

Rhymes With

venezuela gala ala kayla leila layla laila mala lyla haler

Questions

How do you pronounce mela?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈmeɪlə/.
What does mela mean?: A Hindu religious festival.
Where does mela come from?: It is traced to Hindi.

How to pronounce mela

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