Meaning of melono | Babel Free

Definitions

1. melon
2. The Esperanto jubilee symbol, consisting of the Latin letter E and Cyrillic letter Э.
   humorous, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“1927, La Sankta Biblio, Nombroj (Numbers) 11, 5', page 129”

We remember the fishes, that we ate in Egypt freely, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the bulbs of garlic.

“Por niaj rilatoj al eksteruloj ver^sajne la jubilea simbolo (a^u "melono" a^u "rugbea pilko") pli ta^ugas ol stelo, kvankam mi konsilas inkluzivi etan stelon en la jubilea simbolo, sed por esperantistoj la simbolo de Esperanto ver^sajne restos verda stelo kvaza^u eterne.”

(please add an English translation of this quotation) The jubilee symbol (or "melon" or "rugby ball") is seemingly better suited for our contact with outsiders than a star, although I advise including a tiny star in the jubilee symbol, but, for its speakers, the symbol of Esperanto will seemingly always remain a green star.

“Kontraste kun UEA, uzanta la melonon (la jubilean simbolon), LF-koop ne evitas la verdan stelon nek, almenaŭ provizore, la dikliteran frontispicon de Heroldo.”

In contrast to UEA, which uses the "melon" (the jubilee symbol), LF-koop doesn't avoid the green star nor, at least temporarily, the bold-lettered frontispiece to Heroldo.

“Ekzemple gxi donas la impreson ke oni komencis inventi simbolojn (la stelon, la melonon) nur en 1983 -- en la fonto (retpagxo kien kondukas ligilo) la jaro estas gxuste indikita kiel 1893!”

(please add an English translation of this quotation) For example, it gives the impression that we only started inventing symbols (the star, the melon) in 1983 -- in the source (the webpage the link leads to) the year is rightly given as 1893!

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