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
- Maru (Heavenly Delusion) (マル), 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
- Maru Sthal or the Thar Desert, a desert in India and Pakistan
- Maru Pradesh or Maru Sthali, a region 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: 丸, hiragana: まる), means circle; see Japanese rebus monogram § Variations
- Marujirushi (丸印, correct mark); the opposite of batsu (×)
- Handakuten (半濁点, 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, 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
See also
- All pages with titles containing Maru
- Măru (disambiguation)
- Thar (disambiguation), thar and maru are generic terms for deserts in Indic languages
- Marus (disambiguation)
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