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mela en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmeɪlə/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A Hindu religious festival.
2. A South Asian fair.
   • 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. 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 53:
   • 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. 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:

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