mela

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mela

/ˈmeɪlə/

Sounds like mailer (non-rhotic pronunciations) · Rhymes with -eɪlə

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

noun melas

A Hindu religious festival.
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.

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@misc{mela_2026,
  title = {mela},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mela},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}