мера

From Proto-Slavic *mě̀ra, a doublet of мя́ра (mjára) and moderation. Spread into the Standard language from a Western dialect.

ме́ра • (méra) f (related adjective ме́рен)

1. measure, extent
2. (dialectal) measuring pot that contains a unit of volume /liter, pint, gallon, etc./
3. (poetic) fate, destiny

   Synonyms: съдба (sǎdba), доля (dolja), орисия (orisija)

   мера според мера ― mera spored mera ― whatever Fate has to bring

• мя́ра (mjára) – Eastern dialects
• мера́ (merá) – Northwestern dialects

• ме́ря (mérja, “to measure”)
  • мя́рка (mjárka, “measure”)
• мера́ч (meráč, “meter, measurer”)

• мера in Rečnik na bǎlgarskija ezik (Institut za bǎlgarski ezik)
• Georgiev V. I., editor (1986), “ме́ра¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 740
• Georgiev V. I., editor (1986), “ме́ра²”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 740
• Georgiev V. I., editor (1986), “мера́¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 741

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مرعی‎ / مرعا‎ (merʼa) (whence Turkish mera (“grassland”)), from Arabic مَرْعًى‎ (marʕan).

мера́ • (merá) f

1. (historical, dialectal) field that is free to be used for pasture

   Synonyms: землище (zemlište), пасище (pasište)

• меря́ (merjá), мери́е (meríe)

• ме́рище (mérište) (augmentative)
• мераджи́я (meradžíja, “field guard”) (historical)

• мера in Rečnik na bǎlgarskija ezik (Institut za bǎlgarski ezik)
• мера in Rečnik na bǎlgarskija ezik (Čitanka.Info)
• Georgiev V. I., editor (1986), “мера́²”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 741

From Proto-Slavic *mě̀ra.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɾa]
• Rhymes: -ɛɾa

мера • (mera) f (related adjective мерен)

1. degree, extent
2. moderation

From Ancient Greek ἡμέρα (hēméra). Cognates include Greek ημέρα (iméra), μέρα (méra).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲera/
• Hyphenation: ме‧ра

ме́ра • (mjéra) f (Greek spelling μέρα)

1. day
2. afternoon

• A. A. Diamantopulo-Rionis; D. L. Demerdzhi; A. M. Davydova-Diamantopulo; A. A. Shapurma; R. S. Kharabadot; D. K. Patricha (2006) Румейско-русский и русско-румейский словарь пяти диалектов греков Приазовья, Mariupol, →ISBN, page 130
• G. A. Animica; M. P. Galikbarova (2013) Румеку глоса‎, Donetsk, page 83

• мѣ́ра (mě́ra) – Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mě̀ra.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmʲerə]

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ме́ра • (méra) f inan (genitive ме́ры, nominative plural ме́ры, genitive plural мер, diminutive ме́рка)

1. (dated) A dry measure approximately equal to one pood of seeds, usually equated with the chetverik, standardized in 1902 as 26.239 liters.
2. measure
3. degree, extent, limit

   знать ме́ру ― znatʹ méru ― to know when to stop

4. measure, step, action
5. way

• ме́рить (méritʹ)
• ме́рка (mérka)
• ме́рный (mérnyj), ме́рно (mérno)
• мери́ло (merílo)
• по ме́ньшей ме́ре (po ménʹšej mére), по кра́йней ме́ре (po krájnej mére)
• по ме́ре того́ как (po mére tovó kak)
• мероприя́тие (meroprijátije)

• разме́р (razmér)

• бала́нс (baláns)
• едини́ца (jediníca), этало́н (etalón)
• сре́дство (srédstvo)

• (Ijekavian): мје̏ра

From Proto-Slavic *mě̀ra.

• IPA^(key): /mêra/
• Hyphenation: ме‧ра

ме̏ра f (Latin spelling mȅra)

1. measure
2. dimension, size
3. rate
4. degree
5. extent
6. unit