melé

See also: mele, Mele, mêle, melē, mēle, mêlé, and mēlē

Portuguese

Noun

melé m (plural melés)

1. (Brazil, card games) joker (playing card that features a picture of a jester)

   Synonyms: (Brazil) curinga, (Portugal) jóquer

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈle/ [meˈle]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: me‧lé

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French mêlée.

Noun

melé f (plural melés)

1. (rugby) scrum

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

melé

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of melar

Further reading

• “melé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10