diff --git a/lib/internal/streams/iter/consumers.js b/lib/internal/streams/iter/consumers.js
index 442fe95b8e1b85..bcfe5d5ab29749 100644
--- a/lib/internal/streams/iter/consumers.js
+++ b/lib/internal/streams/iter/consumers.js
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 // ondrain() - backpressure drain utility
 
 const {
+  ArrayBufferIsView,
   ArrayBufferPrototypeGetByteLength,
   ArrayBufferPrototypeSlice,
   ArrayPrototypeMap,
@@ -51,9 +52,12 @@ const {
 
 const {
   drainableProtocol,
+  toAsyncStreamable,
+  toStreamable,
 } = require('internal/streams/iter/types');
 
 const {
+  isAnyArrayBuffer,
   isSharedArrayBuffer,
 } = require('internal/util/types');
 
@@ -65,8 +69,12 @@ function isMergeOptions(value) {
   return (
     value !== null &&
     typeof value === 'object' &&
+    !ArrayBufferIsView(value) &&
+    typeof value[toStreamable] !== 'function' &&
+    typeof value[toAsyncStreamable] !== 'function' &&
     !isAsyncIterable(value) &&
-    !isSyncIterable(value)
+    !isSyncIterable(value) &&
+    !isAnyArrayBuffer(value)
   );
 }
 
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-stream-iter-consumers-merge.js b/test/parallel/test-stream-iter-consumers-merge.js
index ad047c0ffd7ed4..c5b18be042d874 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-stream-iter-consumers-merge.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-stream-iter-consumers-merge.js
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ const {
   push,
   merge,
   text,
+  toAsyncStreamable,
+  toStreamable,
 } = require('stream/iter');
 
 // =============================================================================
@@ -162,6 +164,27 @@ async function testMergeStringSources() {
   assert.ok(combined.includes('world'));
 }
 
+// merge() accepts object-like sources that are normalized via from()
+async function testMergeObjectLikeSources() {
+  const arrayBuffer = new TextEncoder().encode('abc').buffer;
+  const dataView = new DataView(new TextEncoder().encode('def').buffer);
+  const streamable = {
+    [toStreamable]() {
+      return 'ghi';
+    },
+  };
+  const asyncStreamable = {
+    [toAsyncStreamable]() {
+      return Promise.resolve('jkl');
+    },
+  };
+
+  assert.strictEqual(await text(merge(arrayBuffer)), 'abc');
+  assert.strictEqual(await text(merge(dataView)), 'def');
+  assert.strictEqual(await text(merge(streamable)), 'ghi');
+  assert.strictEqual(await text(merge(asyncStreamable)), 'jkl');
+}
+
 Promise.all([
   testMergeTwoSources(),
   testMergeSingleSource(),
@@ -172,4 +195,5 @@ Promise.all([
   testMergeConsumerBreak(),
   testMergeSignalMidIteration(),
   testMergeStringSources(),
+  testMergeObjectLikeSources(),
 ]).then(common.mustCall());