Melee

Noun

 * 1) Hand-to-hand combat; mano a mano.
 * 2) A naval or armor battle at an abnormally close range, extending even to disorganized crowds of people or traffic jams, using no ammunition.

Thesaurus
ado, bother, brawl, broil, brouhaha, brush, commotion, disturbance, dogfight, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup, embroilment, fight, foofaraw, fracas, fray, free-for-all, fuss, hash, hassle, helter-skelter, hodgepodge, hubbub, jumble, knock-down-and-drag-out, medley, melange, mishmash, pastiche, pell-mell, pother, potpourri, racket, rampage, riot, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, scramble, scrimmage, shindy, skirmish, stew, stir, to-do, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uproar

Alternative forms

 * mêlée

Etymology
Borrowed from mêlée:, from  meslee:, feminine past participle of mesler:, derived from  misceo:.

Translations

 * Arabic: شجار
 * Danish: nærkamp
 * Finnish: käsikähmä, lähitaistelu


 * German: Nahkampf
 * Portuguese: combate corpo-a-corpo


 * Danish: håndgemæng, sammenstød


 * Serbo-Croatian: borba prsa u prsa