Maru may refer to:
People
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Maru (given name) Maru is a given name. In Spanish it is a short form ( hypocorism) of ''María Eugenia''.
Notable people with the name include:
* Maru Daba (born 1980), Ethiopian runner
* Maru Díaz (born 1990), Spanish politician
* Maru Dueñas (1967–2017), Mex ...
, a Spanish given name, a shortened form of Maria Eugenia
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Maru (surname), a surname of Indic origin
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Maru (mythology), a Māori war god
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Ngāti Maru (disambiguation)
Ngāti Maru may refer to:
* Ngāti Maru (Hauraki), a tribe of Hauraki, New Zealand
* Ngāti Maru (Taranaki)
Ngāti Maru or Te Iwi o Maruwharanui is a Māori iwi of inland Taranaki in New Zealand. They are descended from Maruwharanui, the eldes ...
, several Māori tribes of New Zealand
Places
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Maru, Shwegu, a village in Kachin State, Burma
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Maru, Estonia
Maru is a village in Mulgi Parish, Viljandi County, in southern Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finla ...
,a village in Halliste Parish, Viljandi County, Estonia
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Maru, Iran (disambiguation) Maru ( fa, مرو or مارو) may refer to:
* Maru, Hormozgan (مارو - ''Mārū'')
* Maru, Lorestan (مرو - ''Marū'')
* Maru, Zanjan (مرو - ''Marū'')
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Maru (Irbid), a village in Irbid, Jordan
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Maru, Kathmandu, a market and ceremonial square in Kathmandu, Nepal
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Maru, Nigeria, a Local Government Area in Zamfara State
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Maru-Aten, a palace or sun-temple in Armarna, Egypt
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Maru Sthal or the Thar Desert, a desert in India and Pakistan
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Maru Pradesh
Maru Pradesh is a geographical region and a proposed desert state in northwest India. Its proposed capital is Jodhpur. It would be carved out from the state of Rajasthan. The proposed state consists of Barmer district, Jaisalmer district, ...
or Maru Sthali, a region of the Indian state of Rajasthan in the Thar Desert
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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 Gro ...
(丸山), the name for several mountains on Hokkaidō, Japan
Language
* In Japanese ''maru'' (kanji: , hiragana: ), means ''circle''; see
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Marujirushi'' (, correct mark); the opposite of ''batsu'' (×)
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Handakuten (, a Japanese diacritical mark ( ゜)
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Maru language
Lhao Vo (,) also known as Maru (မရူ) and Langsu (), is a Burmish language spoken in Burma and by a few thousand speakers in China.
Distribution
Dai Qingxia (2005:3) reports 5,600 Langsu speakers in China. Many thousands more are dispersed ...
, one of several languages spoken among the Kachin people in Myanmar/Burma and China
Other uses
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Maru (cat)
Maru (born May 24, 2007) is a male Scottish Straight cat in Japan who has become popular on YouTube. Videos featuring Maru have been viewed over 479 million times, and at one point held the Guinness World Record for the most YouTube video views ...
, 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 ar ...
* ''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 mount ...
* 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 ...
), a World War II code used by Japanese merchant ships
* An alternate term for the Ancient Indian weapon
maduvu
* One of the
raga
A ''raga'' or ''raag'' (; also ''raaga'' or ''ragam''; ) is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music akin to a musical mode, melodic mode. The ''rāga'' is a unique and central feature of the classical Indian music tradit ...
s of the Sikh religion
* One layer in a
kuruwa, a Japanese castle wall system
See also
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Măru (disambiguation) Măru may refer to several places in Romania:
* Măru, a village in Zăvoi Commune, Caraș-Severin County
* Măru, a village in Logrești Commune, Gorj County
* Pârâul Mărului, a river in Vrancea County
See also
* Măru Roșu (disambiguat ...
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Thar (disambiguation) Thar or THAR may refer to:
* Himalayan tahr (''Hemitragus jemlahicus''), an ungulate, also known as thar, especially in the Western Himalayas
* Himalayan serow (''Capricornis thar''), an ungulate, also known as thar, especially in the Eastern Him ...
, thar and maru are generic terms for deserts in Indic languages
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