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Meru

Meru proper noun: the abode of the gods at the center of the universe in Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions.

Proper noun (1)

Meru

  1. (usually) The abode of the gods at the center of the universe in Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions.
    • Buddhist realizations and transformations take place in a sacred meditational space known as Mount Meru, or Sumeru. In Western-language literature, the Mount Meru system is often construed as the "Buddhist universe," but this description is misleading as it implies a singular phenomenon. The Mount...2003, J. Dina Bagdel, John C. Huntington Buddhist Cosmology: Environment of Meditative Transformation: Mount Meru, John C. Huntington, Dina Bangdel, Robert A. F. Thurman, The Circle of Bliss...
    • 2013, Eric Huntington, Portrait of a Landscape: Depictions of the Meru Cosmos in Buddhist Art & Culture, Dissertation, University of Chicago.
    Synonyms:
    Mount Meru, Sumeru

Proper noun (2)

Meru

  1. The Ameru people of Kenya.
  2. The Ameru language.
  3. A region and county of Kenya where the Ameru people live.

Proper noun (3)

Meru

  1. (usually) A mountain in Arusha, Tanzania.
    • It was in 1902, six years after the killings, however, that a church and school were built near Akeri, specifically at Nkoaranga on the slopes of Mount Meru (Baroin 1995, 3).2009, Dale C. Williams, Leadership and Leadership Development in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania: An Investigation into Patterns and Processes in the Meru Diocese, page 9
  2. A people of northern Tanzania, of the Arumeru district of Arusha region.

Proper noun (4)

Meru

  1. (usually) A mountain in the Indian section of the Himalayas.
    Synonyms:
    Meru Peak

Noun capitalized: MERU

MERU (plural MERUs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of milli-Earth rate unit (“a unit of angular velocity equal to one thousandth of Earth's rotation rate”).

Meru meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Sanskrit

Meru in Hindi

abode
मेरु meru, मेरु पर्वत meru parvat, सुमेरु sumeru, हेमाद्रि hemādri, रत्नसानु ratnasānu, सुरालय surālay

Meru in Tamil

abode
மகா மேரு பருவதம் makā mēru paruvatam

Meru in Marathi

abode
मेरू merū

Meru in Sanskrit

abode
मेरु meru
More languagesFewer languages
Meru in Thai
เขาพระสุเมรุ
Meru in Vietnamese
Núi Tu-di
Meru in Myanmar
မြင်းမိုရ် mrang:muir, မြင်းမိုရ်တောင် mrang:muirtaung

Synonyms of Meru

  • Mount Meru
  • Sumeru
  • Meru Peak

Forms of Meru

pluralMERUs

Origin of Meru

From Sanskrit मेरु (Mēru)

From Meru Ameru

Introduced by MIT's Instrumentation Laboratories to measure the performance of inertial navigation systems.

Questions about Meru

What does Meru mean?
Meru means the abode of the gods at the center of the universe in Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions.
What is Meru in Hindi?
Meru in Hindi is मेरु (meru), मेरु पर्वत (meru parvat), सुमेरु (sumeru). See Meru meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Meru?
Meru can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Meru in the dictionary

  1. Mertonians
  2. Mertons
  3. Mertz
  4. Mertzes
  5. Mertzon
  6. Meru
  7. Meruimenti
  8. Merula
  9. Meruland
  10. meruliaceous
  11. merulid

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