Balinese edit

Etymology edit

From Old Javanese meru, from Sanskrit मेरु (meru).

Noun edit

ᬫᬾᬭᬸ (meru)

  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.