meru

See also: mēru, Meru, and MERU

Balinese

Noun

meru

  1. alternative spelling of méru

Dumbea

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mar̃ù/

Noun

meru

  1. dog

References

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

méru (plural meru-meru)

  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

Javanese

Romanization

meru

  1. romanization of ꦩꦺꦫꦸ

Old English

Adjective

meru

  1. alternative form of mearu

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: méru
  • → Balinese: méru

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

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]
      • [1614, Claude d'Abbeville, 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] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 255:
        Il y a des Mouches que les Indiens appellent Merou ou Berou: il ſ'en trouue de diuerſes eſpeces mais toutes differentes des noſtres.
        There are flies that the Indians call “meru” or “mberu”: various types are found, but all of them are differet from ours.]
    2. (strictly) New World screwworm fly (Cochliomyia hominivorax)[2][3]
      • [1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter XCII, in Notícia do Brasil (in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, 2nd edition, Rio de Janeiro: João Ignancio da Silva, 1879, page 222:
        Merús, são outras moscas grandes e azuladas que mordem muito, onde chegam, tanto que por cima de rede passam o gibam a quem está lançado n’ela, e logo fazem arrebentar o sangue pela mordedura: aconteceu muitas vezes porem elas varejas a homens que estavam dormindo, nas orelhas, nas ventas e no céu da boca, e lavrarem de feição por dentro as varejas, sem se saber o que era, que morreram alguns d’isso.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)]

    Descendants

    • Nheengatu: merú
    • → Brazilian Portuguese: biru

    References

    1. ^ anonymous author (1622), “Mosca [Fly]”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 43: “Berû [Mberu]”
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Papavero, Nelson; Teixeira, Dante Martins (2014), Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 293, lines 394, 396
    3. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (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 278, columns 1–2
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