Melilla

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Tarifit mlel

Tarifit Mliltbor.

Arabic مَلِيلْيَة (malīlya)bor.

Spanish Melillabor.

English Melilla

Borrowed from Spanish Melilla.

Proper noun

Melilla

2. An autonomous city of Spain and exclave at the edge of Morocco.

Translations

Spanish exclave

• Arabic: مَلِيلْيَة f (malīlya)

  Moroccan Arabic: مليلية f (mlīlya)

• Catalan: Melilla
• Farefare: Meliya, Melilya
• Galician: Melilla (gl)
• Greek: Μελίγια f (Melígia)
• Latin: Melila; Rusadir n etc. (historical)
• Portuguese: Melilha (pt)
• Spanish: Melilla (es)
• Swedish: Melilla
• Tarifit: Mlilt, Mřitc

See also

• Ceuta

Further reading

• Melilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈli.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [meˈli.ʎa]

Proper noun

Melilla f

1. Melilla (an autonomous city of Spain)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَلِيلْيَة (malīlya), from Tarifit Mlilt.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /meˈliʝa/ [meˈli.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /meˈliʝa/ [meˈli.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /meˈliʎa/ [meˈli.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /meˈliʃa/ [meˈli.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /meˈliʒa/ [meˈli.ʒa]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝa

• Rhymes: -iʝa
• Rhymes: -iʎa
• Rhymes: -iʃa
• Rhymes: -iʒa

• Syllabification: Me‧li‧lla

Proper noun

Melilla f

1. Melilla (an autonomous city of Spain and exclave at the edge of Morocco)

Derived terms

• melillense

 

Descendants

• → English: Melilla