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meru

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See also: mēru and Meru

Balinese

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Romanization

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meru

  1. Romanization of ᬫᬾᬭᬸ.

Dumbea

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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meru

  1. dog

References

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Indonesian

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Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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méru (uncountable)

  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

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Javanese

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Romanization

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meru

  1. Romanization of ꦩꦺꦫꦸ.

Old English

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Adjective

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meru

  1. Alternative form of mearu

Old Javanese

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Etymology

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From Sanskrit मेरु (meru).

Noun

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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

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

Old Tupi

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *meru.

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní mberu.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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meru (?)

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

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References

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  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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