meru
Balinese
Romanization
meru
- Romanization of ᬫᬾᬭᬸ.
Dumbea
Pronunciation
Noun
meru
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
Etymology
From Javanese meru (ꦩꦺꦫꦸ) and Balinese meru (ᬫᬾᬭᬸ), from Old Javanese meru, from Sanskrit मेरु (meru).
Pronunciation
Noun
méru (first-person possessive meruku, second-person possessive merumu, third-person possessive merunya)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Romanization of ꦩꦺꦫꦸ.
Old Javanese
Etymology
Noun
meru
Descendants
Old Tupi
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *meru.
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní mberu.
Pronunciation
Noun
meru (?)
- fly (any insect in the suborder Brachycera)[1]
- (strictly) New World screwworm fly (Cochliomyia hominivorax)[2]
Related terms
Descendants
- Nheengatu: merú
References
- ^ 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]”
- ^ 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, , →ISBN, →ISSN, page 293
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