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)