{{wiktionary}} '''Maru''' may refer to:

{{TOC right}} ==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=== * {{nihongo|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 * 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: {{lang|ja|丸}}, hiragana: {{lang|ja|まる}}), means ''circle''; see {{slink|Japanese rebus monogram|Variations}} ** ''Marujirushi'' ({{lang|ja|丸印}}, correct mark); the opposite of ''batsu'' (×) ** Handakuten ({{lang|ja|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'' (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== * {{in title}} * Măru (disambiguation) * Thar (disambiguation), thar and maru are generic terms for deserts in Indic languages * Marus (disambiguation)

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