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People

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 * Maru (surname), a surname of Indic origin * Maru (mythology), a Māori war god *

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

Maru, Shwegu Maru, Shwegu is a village in Shwegu Township in Bhamo District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British E ...

, a village in Kachin State, Burma *

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 * 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 about 4536 people live in Maru by 2015. History Archaeological situation Was found the an ...

, a village in Irbid, Jordan * Maru, Kathmandu, 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 p ...

, 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 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, Bika ...

, a region in the Indian state of Rajasthan *

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 (, a Japanese diacritical mark ( ゜) *

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

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 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 ...

* ''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 e ...

), 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

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