Wiktionary

marama

Crimean Tatar edit

Noun edit

marama

  1. kerchief

Declension edit

Declension of marama
singular plural
nominative marama maramalar
genitive maramanıñ maramalarnıñ
dative maramağa maramalarğa
accusative maramanı maramalarnı
locative maramada maramalarda
ablative maramadan maramalardan

References edit

Fijian edit

Noun edit

marama

  1. lady
  2. housewife (marama ni vale, to specify connotation)

Maori edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Proto-Oceanic *ramaʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *damaʀ (“tree resin”) (compare with Malay damar (“resin”)),[1] either:[2]

  1. via Proto-Polynesian *ma-ramaa (“to shine”) (compare with Hawaiian malama, Tahitian marama), from Proto-Oceanic *ma-ramaʀ (“to shine”),
  2. via Proto-Polynesian *rama, from Proto-Oceanic *rama (compare with Fijian rama and rarama “light”)

Doublet of mārama, rama, and mā.

Noun edit

marama

  1. moon
    Synonym: māhina
  2. month
    Synonym: kaupeka

Related terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “ma-rama.a”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
  2. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 213-4, 389

Further reading edit

  • “marama” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish محرمه (whence Turkish mahrama), from Arabic مَحْرَمة (maḥrama, “kerchief”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /mǎrama/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ra‧ma

Noun edit

màrama f (Cyrillic spelling ма̀рама)

  1. kerchief
    Synonym: (Croatia) rubac

Declension edit

Declension of marama
singular plural
nominative marama marame
genitive marame marama
dative marami maramama
accusative maramu marame
vocative maramo marame
locative marami maramama
instrumental maramom maramama

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • → Ladino: maramán (“napkin, serviette”) (Balkan)

Tahitian edit

Noun edit

marama

  1. moon
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