mecha

From Japanese メカ (meka), from an abbreviation of the English mechanical.

• Rhymes: -ɛkə
• Homophone: mecca

mecha (plural mechas or mecha)

1. (anime, manga) A large armoured robot on legs, typically controlled by a pilot seated inside.
   • 1997, Helen McCarthy, The anime movie guide

     Having deprived her of both her mecha and her lover, Masato looks set for a nasty end, but Miku arrives to save him.

   • 2002, Christopher Hart, Anime mania: how to draw characters for Japanese animation

     A transformation occurs when a mecha character, vehicle, or weapon unfolds and reassembles itself in a totally new form.

   • 2006, Dani Cavallaro, The animé art of Hayao Miyazaki

     Porco Rosso evinces a deep fascination with mechanical objects of all sorts but it is by no means a mecha movie...

   • 2007, Frenchy Lunning, Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire

     Each week the good guys fight the bad guys and vanquish them in a mecha battle, only to have the bad guys reappear intact the following week.

   • 2007, Robin E. Brenner, Understanding manga and anime (page 170)

     […] to be a “lifter”—to pilot a mecha that can also transform into an air board […]

   • 2011, Kensuke Okabayashi, Manga For Dummies (page 275)

     In this section, I show you mechas that are large enough to be piloted by humans from the inside. Although most of them are designed for combat, some function as transportation or construction mechas.

• Cheam, mache, meach, mâche

15th century. From Old French mesche.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmet͡ʃa̝/

mecha f (plural mechas)

1. wick (burning cord)
   • 1455, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, page 315:

     et fogil et ysca et candea de çera et hun pente e mechas de xofre e hun cordón de sedas

     and a tinderbox, and tinder, and a candle made of wax, and a comb, and sulfur wicks, and a silk cord

   Synonyms: matula, pabío, torcida

2. lock of hair

• “mecha” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “mecha” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “mecha” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mecha” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

mecha

1. Rōmaji transcription of めちゃ

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛxa/, [ˈmæxa]

mecha

1. inflection of mech:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

From French mèche.

mecha f (plural mechas)

1. lock (length of hair)
2. wick (burning cord of a candle)

• (lock): cacho, madeixa
• (wick): pavio

Perhaps from French mèche.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmet͡ʃa/

mecha f (plural mechas)

1. wick, fuse
2. lock (length of hair)

   Synonym: bucle

• mechero
• mechón

• espoleta
• fusible