Mela (disambiguation)
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Mela
Mela
Mela is a Sanskrit word meaning 'gathering' or 'to meet' or a Fair. It is used in the Indian subcontinent for all sizes of gathering and can be religious, commercial, cultural or sports. In rural traditions melas or village fairs were of great importance...

is a Sanskrit term for "gathering".

Mela may also refer to:
  • Mela (film)
    Mela (film)
    Mela is the title of four Indian films:*Mela , a Hindi film.*Mela , a Hindi film.*Mela , a Malayalam film.*Mela , a Hindi film....

    , the title of several Bollywood films
  • Mela, Corse-du-Sud
    Mela, Corse-du-Sud
    Mela is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.-Population:-References:*...

    , a commune on Corsica, France
  • Mela, an Italian language
    Italian language
    Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

     term for "apple"
  • Mela, diminutive of the Italian names "Carmela" and "Melissa
    Melissa
    Melissa is a given name for a female child. The name comes from the Greek word μέλισσα , "honey bee" and from μέλι , "honey". Compare Hittite melit, "honey"....

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  • Pomponius Mela
    Pomponius Mela
    Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest Roman geographer. He was born in Tingentera and died c. AD 45.His short work occupies less than one hundred pages of ordinary print. It is laconic in style and deficient in method, but of pure Latinity, and occasionally relieved by pleasing...

    , a Roman geographer

See also

  • Melakarta
    Melakarta
    Melakarta is a collection of fundamental ragas in Carnatic music . Melakarta ragas are parent ragas from which other ragas may be generated. A melakarta raga is sometimes referred as mela, karta or sampurna as well.In Hindustani music the thaat is equivalent of Melakarta...

    , also known as Mela, any of parent ragas of Carnatic music
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