Meriam
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English
Etymology
From Mer (“Murray Island”), off the northern coast of Australia.
Noun
Meriam (plural Meriams or Meriam)
- A member of an Aboriginal people who live on Mer (Murray Island), in the eastern group of Torres Strait Islands off the northern tip of Australia.
- 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 99:
- The Meriams believed in "Bomai", a shape-shifting sea spirit, who had come to them as an octopus and united the eight island tribes under his watchful eyes.
Proper noun
Meriam
- The Trans-Fly Papuan language of the Meriam people; Meryam Mir.
Further reading
- Ethnologue entry for Meriam, ulk
Anagrams
Malay
Etymology
From Arabic مَرْيَم (maryam). Doublet of Maryam, Mariam, and Maria.
Proper noun
Meriam
References
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “Mĕriam”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 135