Meru
The Ameru people of Kenya.
Proper noun
- The Ameru people of Kenya.
- The Ameru language.
- A region and county of Kenya where the Ameru people live.
Origin
From Meru Ameru
Proper noun Entry 2
- 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...
- A people of northern Tanzania, of the Arumeru district of Arusha region.
Synonyms
Proper noun human sciences, lifestyle
- 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,...
- 2013, Eric Huntington, Portrait of a Landscape: Depictions of the Meru Cosmos in Buddhist Art & Culture, Dissertation, University of Chicago.
Origin
From Sanskrit मेरु (Mēru)
Synonyms
Proper noun Entry 4
- A mountain in the Indian section of the Himalayas.