Maru

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

• , 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
• Marusthal or Maru Sthal, a desert in India and Pakistan
• Marwar, a region of the Indian state of Rajasthan in the Thar Desert
• Marwari (disambiguation)
• Maru or Marwar[i], a character, the princess of Pugal, in the Rajasthani folktale Dhola Maru
• Maru Pradesh or Maru Sthali, a region and proposed state 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: ), means circle; see
• Marujirushi (, correct mark); the opposite of batsu (×)
• Handakuten (, 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 (novel), a 1971 novel by Bessie Head
• WD 0806−661, a star
• 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
• A Japanese unit of mass

See also

• Măru (disambiguation)
• Thar (disambiguation), thar and maru are generic terms for deserts in Indic languages
• Marus (disambiguation)