# meru
## Balinese
### Romanization

meru
* Romanization of ᬫᬾᬭᬸ.

## Dumbea
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mar̃ù/

### Noun

meru
* dog

### References

* 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
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmeru]
* Hyphenation: mé‧ru

### Noun

méru (uncountable)
* 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

* “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
* Romanization of ꦩꦺꦫꦸ.

## Old English
### Adjective

meru
* Alternative form of mearu

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

From Sanskrit मेरु (meru).

### Noun

meru
* (literately) mountain.
    Synonyms: acala, adri, arga, giri, gotra, gunuṅ, meru, naga, pārśwa, parwata, śaila, śikha, wukir
* centre of the world
* pagoda-like building in the temple compound.

#### Descendants

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

## Old Tupi
### Alternative forms

* mberu

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *meru.
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní mberu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mɛˈɾu]
* Rhymes: -u
* Hyphenation: me‧ru

### Noun

meru (?)
* fly (any insect in the suborder Brachycera)
* (strictly) New World screwworm fly (Cochliomyia hominivorax)

#### Related terms

* mberu ra'yra
* mberuoby
* muruanha

#### Descendants

* Nheengatu: merú

### References

* ↑ Claude d'Abbeville (1614) 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] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 255: “Merou [Meru]”
* ↑ Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter XCII, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 241: “Merús [Meru]”
* Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (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 271, columns 1–2
* Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 293