mélia
French, noun\me.lja\
mélia is spelled M-É-L-I-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 92,562nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mélia is a French masculine noun meaning “frangipani or any of several similar plants of the genus Melia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre d’arbres dont le feuillage de certaines espèces ressemble à celui du frêne commun”.
What does mélia mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefrangipani or any of several similar plants of the genus Melia
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre d’arbres dont le feuillage de certaines espèces ressemble à celui du frêne commun. 2. Synonyme de mélia azedarach.
noun: 1. Variante de mélia.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mélia
- mélias plural
- melia
- melias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mélia?
- \me.lja\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mélia in French?
mélia appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).