meru

See also: mēru, Meru, and MERU

Balinese

Noun

meru

  1. alternative spelling of méru

Dumbea

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mar̃ù/

Noun

meru

  1. dog

References

Indonesian

Etymology

From Javanese méru (ꦩꦺꦫꦸ) and Balinese méru, from Old Javanese meru, from Sanskrit मेरु (meru).

Pronunciation

Noun

méru (plural meru-meru)

  1. Mount Meru: the sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology and is considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes
  2. Meru tower: the principal shrine of a Balinese temple, a wooden, pagoda-like structure with a masonry base, a wooden chamber and multi-tiered thatched roofs
  3. triangular decoration as a symbol of the divine being

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

meru

  1. romanization of ꦩꦺꦫꦸ

Old English

Adjective

meru

  1. alternative form of mearu

Old Javanese

Etymology

From Sanskrit मेरु (meru).

Noun

meru

  1. (literately) mountain.
    Synonyms: acala, adri, arga, giri, gotra, gunuṅ, meru, naga, pārśwa, parwata, śaila, śikha, wukir
  2. centre of the world
  3. pagoda-like building in the temple compound.

Descendants

  • Javanese: ꦩꦺꦫꦸ (méru)
  • → Balinese: ᬫᬾᬭᬸ (meru)

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *meru.

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní mberu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mɛˈɾu]
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: me‧ru

Noun

meru (?)

  1. fly (any insect in the suborder Brachycera)[1]
  2. (strictly) New World screwworm fly (Cochliomyia hominivorax)[2]

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: merú

References

  1. ^ Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XLII, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 255: “Merou [Meru]”
  2. ^ Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter XCII, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 241: “Merús [Meru]”
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