Maru may refer to:

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Maru (given name) Maru is a given name. In Spanish language, Spanish it is a short form (hypocorism) of ''María Eugenia''. In Japanese maru (kanji: 丸, hiragana: まる), means circle. Notable people with the name include: * Maru Daba (born 1980), Ethiopian runner ...

, a Spanish given name, a shortened form of Maria Eugenia * Maru (surname), a surname of Indic origin *

Maru (mythology) Maru is a Māori war god, especially well known in southern New Zealand, where he replaces Tūmatauenga (commonly shortened to Tū), the war god of the rest of New Zealand. In the Hawaiian Islands he is an evil and restless god who has no time ...

, a Māori war god * Ngāti Maru (disambiguation), several Māori tribes of New Zealand

Fiction

* , a character from the anime and manga series ''Heavenly Delusion''

Places

* Maru, Shwegu, a village in Kachin State, Burma *

Maru, Estonia Maru is a village in Mulgi Parish, Viljandi County, in southern Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the B ...

, a village in Halliste Parish, Viljandi County, Estonia * Maru, Iran (disambiguation) *

Maru (Irbid) Maru is one of the main agricultural villages in Irbid Governorate, Jordan. It is located to the north-east of the city of Irbid, about 7 km, and had a population of about 4536 people in 2015. History Maru is traced back to Ancient Greece ...

, a village in Irbid, Jordan *

Maru, Kathmandu Maru () is a historic neighborhood in central Kathmandu, Nepal and one of the most important cultural spots in the city. It is linked with the origin of the name Kathmandu, and forms part of what is generically known as Durbar Square (including ...

, a market and ceremonial square in Kathmandu, Nepal *

Maru, Nigeria Maru is a Local Government Area in Zamfara State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Maru at in the far north of the Area. It has an area of 6,654 km and a population of 291,900 at the 2006 census. The postal code A ...

, a Local Government Area in Zamfara State *

Maru-Aten Maru-Aten, short for Pa-maru-en-pa-aten (The Viewing-Palace-of-the-Aten), is a palace or sun-temple located 3 km to the south of the central city area of the city of Akhetaten (today's el Amarna). It is thought to have been originally constru ...

, a palace or sun-temple in Armarna, Egypt * Maru Sthal or the Thar Desert, a desert in India and Pakistan **

Maru Pradesh Maru Pradesh is a geographical, cultural, social, economic, political and linguistic region of the Thar Desert in the Northwest India. It is also a proposed state in India with its proposed capital being Bikaner, the Central city of Maru Prades ...

or Maru Sthali, a region of the Indian state of Rajasthan in the Thar Desert **

Māru-Gurjara architecture Māru-Gurjara architecture or Solaṅkī style, is the style of West Indian temple architecture that originated in Gujarat and Rajasthan from the 11th to 13th centuries, under the Chaulukya dynasty (also called Solaṅkī dynasty). Although or ...

, an architectural style of Rajasthan, India *

Mount Maru (disambiguation) Mount Maru may refer to: * Mount Maru (Esan), a volcano on the Kameda Peninsula of Hokkaidō * Mount Maru (Hiroo), a mountain in the Hidaka Mountains of Hokkaidō * Mount Maru (Kamishihoro-Shintoku), a volcano in the Nipesotsu-Maruyama Volcanic ...

(丸山), the name for several mountains on Hokkaidō, Japan

Language

* In Japanese ''maru'' (kanji: , hiragana: ), means ''circle''; see ** '' Marujirushi'' (, correct mark); the opposite of ''batsu'' (×) **

Handakuten The , colloquially , is a diacritic most often used in the Japanese language, Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a Mora (linguistics), mora should be pronounced Voice (phonetics), voiced, for instance, on sounds that ...

(, a Japanese diacritical mark ( ゜) *

Maru language Lhaovo (the Burmese name: လော်ဝေါ်), also known as Maru (မရူ) and Langsu (the Chinese name: 浪速), is a Burmish language spoken in Burma and by a few thousand speakers in China. Distribution Dai Qingxia (2005:3) reports ...

, one of several languages spoken among the Kachin people in Myanmar/Burma and China

Other uses

Maru (cat) Maru (, born 24 May 2007) is a male Scottish Straight cat in Japan who has become popular on YouTube. Videos featuring Maru have been viewed over 535 million times, and at one point held the Guinness World Record for the most YouTube video view ...

, a Japanese Internet celebrity cat * ''Maru'', a 1971 novel by

Bessie Head Bessie Amelia Emery Head (6 July 1937 – 17 April 1986) was a South African writer who, though born in South Africa, is usually considered Botswana's most influential writer. She wrote novels, short fiction and autobiographical works that are ...

WD 0806−661 WD 0806−661 (L 97-3, GJ 3483), formally named Maru, is a DQ white dwarf with an extremely cold Y-type substellar companion (designated "B"), located in the constellation Volans at from Earth. The companion was discovered in 2011, ...

, a star * ''Maru'', a common suffix to Japanese ship names; See

Japanese ship-naming conventions Japanese ship names follow different conventions from those typical in the West. Merchant ship names often contain the word ''maru'' at the end (meaning ''circle''), while warships are never named after people, but rather after objects such as mou ...

* Maru code (

JN-39 The vulnerability of Japanese naval codes and ciphers was crucial to the conduct of World War II, and had an important influence on foreign relations between Japan and the west in the years leading up to the war as well. Every Japanese code was e ...

), a World War II code used by Japanese merchant ships * An alternate term for the Ancient Indian weapon

maduvu The Maduvu, also known as a ''maru'' or ''madu'', is a weapon from India. It is one of the many weapons used in the Tamil martial art Silambam. More commonly known as a madu, it is also referred to as a ''maan kombu'' after the deer horns fro ...

* One of the

raga A raga ( ; , ; ) is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music akin to a musical mode, melodic mode. It is central to classical Indian music. Each raga consists of an array of melodic structures with musical motifs; and, fro ...

s of the Sikh religion * One layer in a

kuruwa is a Japanese term for the walls of a Japanese castle, and the regions bounded by the arrangement of those walls. The term may also be written as 郭, and the term is also used for castles built after the Edo period. The kuruwa serves as a de ...

, a Japanese castle wall system

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