marama

marama

1. kerchief

• “marama”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

marama

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

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-rama (“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. Cognate of Tahitian marama.

marama

1. moon

   Synonyms: māhina, ahoroa

2. month

   Synonym: kaupeka

• “marama” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

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

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

màrama f (Cyrillic spelling ма̀рама)

1. kerchief

   Synonym: (Croatia) rubac

• màramica

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

Compare Maori marama.

marama

1. moon