Melilla

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Tarifit mlel

Tarifit Mliltbor.

Arabic مَلِيلْيَة (malīlya)bor.

Spanish Melillabor.

English Melilla

Borrowed from Spanish Melilla.

Proper noun

Melilla

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)
Polish: Melilla (pl) f
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

Melilla (an autonomous city of Spain)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَلِيلْيَة (malīlya), from Tarifit Mlilt.^[1]

Pronunciation

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

Rhymes: -iʝa (most of Spain and Latin America)
Rhymes: -iʎa (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
Rhymes: -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
Rhymes: -iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

Syllabification: Me‧li‧lla

Proper noun

Melilla f

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

Derived terms

melillense

Descendants

→ English: Melilla

References

^ Yahia, Jahfar Hassan (2014). Curso de lengua tamazight, nivel elemental. Caminando en la didáctica de la lengua rifeña