meru
Balinese
Romanization
meru
- Romanization of ᬫᬾᬭᬸ.
Dumbea
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mar̃ù/
Noun
meru
- 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)
- 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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese
Romanization
meru
- Romanization of ꦩꦺꦫꦸ.
Old Javanese
Etymology
From Sanskrit मेरु (meru).
Noun
meru
- (literately) mountain.
- centre of the world
- pagoda-like building in the temple compound.
Descendants
- Javanese: ꦩꦺꦫꦸ (méru)
- → Balinese: ᬫᬾᬭᬸ (meru)