meru

See also: mēru and Meru

Balinese

Romanization

meru

1. Romanization of ᬫᬾᬭᬸ.

Dumbea

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mar̃ù/

Noun

meru

1. dog

References

• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDuᵐbea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Shintani, T.L.A. & Païta, Y. (1990) Dictionnaire de la langue de Païta, Nouméa: Sociéte d'etudes historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cited in: "Drubea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Indonesian

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meru

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmeru]
• Hyphenation: mé‧ru

Noun

méru (first-person possessive meruku, second-person possessive merumu, third-person possessive merunya)

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

• “meru” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Romanization

meru

1. Romanization of ꦩꦺꦫꦸ.

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

• mberu

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]

Related terms

• mberu ra'yra
• mberuoby
• muruanha

 

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]”

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “meru”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 271, columns 1–2
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 293