mela
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 8
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- 4
Definition of mela
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- A Hindu religious festival.
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noun
- A Hindu religious festival.
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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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