marama

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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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