marama
Crimean Tatar
Declension
Declension of marama
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | marama | maramalar |
| genitive | maramanıñ | maramalarnıñ |
| dative | maramağa | maramalarğa |
| accusative | maramanı | maramalarnı |
| locative | maramada | maramalarda |
| ablative | maramadan | maramalardan |
Maori
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Oceanic *ramaʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *damaʀ (“tree resin”) (compare with Malay damar (“resin”)),[1] either:[2]
- via Proto-Polynesian *ma-ramaa (“to shine”) (compare with Hawaiian malama, Tahitian marama), from Proto-Oceanic *ma-ramaʀ (“to shine”),
- via Proto-Polynesian *rama, from Proto-Oceanic *rama (compare with Fijian rama and rarama “light”)
Related terms
References
- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “ma-rama.a”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- 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
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Ladino: maramán (“napkin, serviette”) (Balkan)
Tahitian
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