Mataram

Meanings

1. The capital and largest city, a provincial in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
2. A hamlet in Dalfsen, Overijssel, Netherlands.
3. historical areas of plains south of Mount Merapi around present-day Muntilan, Sleman, Yogyakarta, and Prambanan.
4. historical kingdoms around the plain south of Mount Merapi
5. a Javanese Hindu–Buddhist kingdom that flourished between the 8th and 11th centuries.
6. Last major independent Javanese kingdom on the island of Java before it was colonised by the Dutch from the late 16th century until the beginning of the 18th century.

Etymology

From Indonesian Mataram, ultimately from Sanskrit मातरं (mātaraṃ), the singular accusative noun form of मातृ (mātṛ, “mother”).