melas

From Ancient Greek μέλᾱς (mélās, “dark, black”).

melas

1. (taxonomy) dark (in colour), black

• Myelaphus melas
• Globicephala melas
• Anopheles melas
• Incagonum melas

From Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black”).

melas (uncountable)

1. (medicine, obsolete) Synonym of leprosy, particularly contagious forms causing dark spots on the skin.
2. (medicine, uncommon) Synonym of melasma.

• (leprosy): alphos, leuce

melas

1. plural of mela

• EMALS, Lemas, Males, Salem, Selma, Smale, Smeal, almes, amels, lames, lamés, leams, males, meals, mesal, semla

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“false, bad”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲæːɫas/

mẽlas m (plural melai̇̃) stress pattern 4

1. lie

• melagystė, netiesa

(Verbs)

• meluoti

(Nouns)

• melagis m / melagė f

melas

1. second-person singular present indicative of melar

melas f pl

1. plural of mela

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مه‌لاس (melas), from French mélasse (“molasses”), ultimately from Latin mellācea.

• IPA^(key): /meˈɫas/
• Hyphenation: me‧las

melas (definite accusative melası, plural melaslar)

1. molasses, a viscous, sweet syrup obtained from the refining of sugar cane or sugar beet

• “melas”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “melas”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “melas”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3122
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “melas”, in Nişanyan Sözlük