meru

meru

1. Romanization of ᬫᬾᬭᬸ.

• IPA^(key): /mar̃ù/

meru

1. dog

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

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

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.

• “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.

meru

1. Romanization of ꦩꦺꦫꦸ.

From Sanskrit मेरु (meru).

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.

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