Mecha

Etymology
Reborrowed from メカ: meka, itself an abbreviation of the English mechanical.

Noun

 * 1)  A large armoured robot on legs.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 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...
 * 1) * 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.

Translations

 * French:
 * Japanese: メカ


 * Russian:

Anagrams

 * mache, mâche

Etymology
Perhaps from mèche:.

Noun

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

Synonyms

 * bucle

Related terms

 * mechero
 * mechón