Hawaiian

Noun

meli

1. honey
   • 1839 Ka Baibala: Lunakanawai 14:8 (tr. Authorized Version of the Bible, Judges 14:8):

     A mahope iho hoi mai la ia e lawe ia ia, kipa ae la ia e nana i ke kino o ka liona, aia hoi, he poe nalomeli, a me ka meli pu maloko o ke kino o ua liona la.

     And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.

2. bee

Synonyms

• (bee): nalo meli

Italian

Noun

meli m

1. plural of melo

Anagrams

• elmi, lime

Latin

Noun

mēli

1. dative singular of meles

Latvian

Etymology 1

See melis.

Noun

meli m

1. vocative singular form of melis
2. accusative singular form of melis
3. instrumental singular form of melis

Etymology 2

See mele.

Noun

meli f

1. accusative singular form of mele
2. instrumental singular form of mele

Etymology 3

Nominal derived from an old (unattested) verb *melt, from Proto-Indo-European *mel- ‎(“to grind, to crush, to pound”). The semantic evolution was probably: “something ground, crushed (to small pieces)” > “(unimportant) blabber, gossip” (a meaning attested for the verb malt in some contexts; compare also Russian молоть ‎(molót', “to grind; to babble, to gossip”)) > “lie, untruth.” Cognates include Lithuanian melúoti ‎(“to lie, to gossip”), mẽlas, dialectal mãlas, Russian мел ‎(mel, “chalk”), мелкий ‎(mélkyj, “fine, small, petty”), German Mehl ‎(“flour”), Middle Irish mell ‎(“error, delusion”), Ancient Greek μέλεος ‎(méleos, “futile, superfluous, useless”), Tocharian A smale ‎(“lie, untruth”).^[1]

Noun

meli m (1st declension)

1. lie, falsehood, untruth

   nevainīgi meli‎ ― an innocent lie, a fib

   skaidri meli‎ ― a clear, obvious lie

   balti, salti meli‎ ― an outrageous (lit. white, frosty) lie

   izgudrot, stāstīt melus‎ ― to invent, to tell lies

   atklāt melus‎ ― to detect, to reveal a lie

Declension

Derived terms

• melīgs, melīgums

Related terms

• melis, mele
• melot

References

1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “melot”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

Mapudungun

Numeral

meli ‎(using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. (cardinal) four

Samoan

Etymology 1

Borrowing from English mail.

Noun

meli

1. mail

Etymology 2

From Latin mel ‎(“honey”).

Noun

meli

1. honey

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin mel, melle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛli/
• Hyphenation: mè‧li

Noun

meli m

1. honey

Swahili

Noun

meli (needs class)

1. ship

Tocharian B

Etymology

Compare Tocharian A malañ.

Noun

meli

1. (plural only) nose