Maru may refer to:

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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 * 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 to ...

, a Māori war god * Ngāti Maru (disambiguation), 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,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 Maru ( ne, मरु) 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 Squar ...

, 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 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 An O mark, also known as Marujirushi () in Japan and Gongpyo (, ball mark) in Korea, is the name of the symbols "◯" or "⭕" used to represent affirmation in East Asia, similar to its Western equivalent of the checkmark. Its opposite is the X m ...

'' (, correct mark); the opposite of ''batsu'' (×) **

Handakuten The , colloquially , is a diacritic most often used in the Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a syllable should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing). The , co ...

(, 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 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 from ...

* 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 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 def ...

, a Japanese castle wall system

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