Maru

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Maru may refer to:

People

  • Maru (given name), a Spanish given name, a shortened form of Maria Eugenia
  • Maru (surname), a surname of Indic origin
  • Maru (mythology), a Māori war god
  • Ngāti Maru (disambiguation), several Māori tribes of New Zealand

Fiction

  • Maru (Heavenly Delusion) (マル), a character from the anime and manga series Heavenly Delusion

Places

  • Maru, Shwegu, a village in Kachin State, Burma
  • Maru, Estonia, a village in Halliste Parish, Viljandi County, Estonia
  • Maru, Iran (disambiguation)
  • Maru (Irbid), a village in Irbid, Jordan
  • Maru, Kathmandu, a market and ceremonial square in Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Maru, Nigeria, a Local Government Area in Zamfara State
  • Maru-Aten, a palace or sun-temple in Armarna, Egypt
  • Maru Sthal or the Thar Desert, a desert in India and Pakistan
    • Maru Pradesh or Maru Sthali, a region of the Indian state of Rajasthan in the Thar Desert
    • Māru-Gurjara architecture, an architectural style of Rajasthan, India
  • Mount Maru (disambiguation) (丸山), the name for several mountains on Hokkaidō, Japan

Language

  • In Japanese maru (kanji: , hiragana: まる), means circle; see Japanese rebus monogram § Variations
    • Marujirushi (丸印, correct mark); the opposite of batsu (×)
    • Handakuten (半濁点, a Japanese diacritical mark ()
  • Maru language, one of several languages spoken among the Kachin people in Myanmar/Burma and China

Other uses

  • Maru (cat), a Japanese Internet celebrity cat
  • Maru, a 1971 novel by Bessie Head
  • Maru, a common suffix to Japanese ship names; See Japanese ship-naming conventions
  • Maru code (JN-39), a World War II code used by Japanese merchant ships
  • An alternate term for the Ancient Indian weapon maduvu
  • One of the ragas of the Sikh religion
  • One layer in a kuruwa, a Japanese castle wall system

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Maru
  • Măru (disambiguation)
  • Thar (disambiguation), thar and maru are generic terms for deserts in Indic languages
  • Marus (disambiguation)
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