marama

Crimean Tatar

Noun

marama

  1. kerchief

Declension

References

Fijian

Noun

marama

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

Maori

Etymology

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 .

Noun

marama

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

References

  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, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 213-4, 389

Further reading

  • 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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

màrama f (Cyrillic spelling ма̀рама)

  1. kerchief
    Synonym: (Croatia) rubac

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Ladino: maramán (napkin, serviette) (Balkan)

Tahitian

Noun

marama

  1. moon
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