marama

Crimean Tatar

Noun

marama

  1. kerchief

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

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 mā.

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, page 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
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

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

Tahitian

Noun

marama

  1. moon
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