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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

meru

1. Romanization of ꦩꦺꦫꦸ.

From Sanskrit मेरु (meru).

meru

1. (literately) mountain.
2. centre of the world
3. pagoda-like building in the temple compound.

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