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

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)
2. (strictly) New World screwworm fly (Cochliomyia hominivorax)

Related terms

• mberu ra'yra
• mberuoby
• muruanha

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: merú

References

• 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) “Catálogo da fauna da costa brasileira no século XVI com os nomes tupis registrados pelos autores europeus [16th century catalogue of the Brazilian coast's fauna as documented by European authors]”, in Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 293