mela

Definition

A Hindu religious festival.

Etymology

From Urdu میلہ (mela)/Hindi मेला (melā), from Sanskrit मेलक (melaka).

Example Sentences

• "Kalua was a man of unusual height and powerful build: in any fair, festival or mela, he could always be spotted towering above the crowd—even the jugglers on stilts were usually not so tall as he."
• "Every year there was a mela in the small village where Jutimala lived and Khitish would send three workers to set up a stall there."