meru

Balinese

Romanization

meru

1. Romanization of ᬫᬾᬭᬸ.

---

Dumbea

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mar̃ù/

Noun

meru

1. dog

References

• Template:cite. 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.
• Template:cite. 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.
2. centre of the world
3. pagoda-like building in the temple compound.

Descendants

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