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Balinese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]meru
- Romanization of ᬫᬾᬭᬸ.
Dumbea
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]meru
References
[edit]- 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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Javanese meru (ꦩꦺꦫꦸ) and Balinese meru (ᬫᬾᬭᬸ), from Old Javanese meru, from Sanskrit मेरु (meru).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]- “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
[edit]Romanization
[edit]meru
- Romanization of ꦩꦺꦫꦸ.
Old Javanese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
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Descendants
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- Balinese non-lemma forms
- Balinese romanizations
- Dumbea terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dumbea lemmas
- Dumbea nouns
- duf:Dogs
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Javanese
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Balinese
- Indonesian terms derived from Balinese
- Indonesian terms derived from Old Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Sanskrit
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- Indonesian uncountable nouns
- Javanese non-lemma forms
- Javanese romanizations
- Old Javanese terms borrowed from Sanskrit
- Old Javanese terms derived from Sanskrit
- Old Javanese lemmas
- Old Javanese nouns