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Meru¹

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit मेरु (Mēru)

proper noun

  1. usually, with "Mount" The abode of the gods at the center of the universe in Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions. 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: Buddhist Meditational Art, page 66, Buddhist realizations and transformations take place in a sacred meditat

    Similar: Mount Meru, Sumeru

Meru²

Where it comes from

From Meru Ameru

proper noun

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

Meru³

proper noun

  1. usually, with "Mount" 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).
  2. A people of northern Tanzania, of the Arumeru district of Arusha region.

Similar: Mount Meru

Meru⁴

proper noun

  1. usually, with "Peak" A mountain in the Indian section of the Himalayas.

    Similar: Meru Peak

MERU⁵

Where it comes from

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

noun MERUs

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

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proper noun

Similar: Mount Meru

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한국어수미산 sumisan
日本語須弥山
中文須彌山 /须弥山 Xūmíshān
हिन्दीमेरु meru, मेरु पर्वत meru parvat, सुमेरु sumeru, हेमाद्रि hemādri, रत्नसानु ratnasānu, सुरालय surālay
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@misc{meru_2026,
  title = {Meru},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/meru},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}