melé

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

Portuguese

Noun

melé m (plural melés)

(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)

(rugby) scrum

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

melé

first-person singular preterite indicative of melar

Further reading

“melé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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