mela

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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6
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Definition of mela

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A Hindu religious festival.
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noun

  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.”
    “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.”

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Etymology

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

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