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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

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
• 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