maru

See also: marú

English

Etymology

From Japanese 円, 丸 (まる, maru, “circle”, also a suffix for ship names).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːɹuː/, /ˈmaɹuː/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹu/

Noun

maru (plural marus)

(prepositive or postpositive) A suffix of Japanese ship names.
the Nippon Maru
(colloquial) A semi-voiced diacritic (゜) used with Japanese kana to change a /h/ to a /p/.
Synonym: handakuten
A large, circular punctuation mark (。) used as a full stop in Japanese text.

Coordinate terms

nigori

Translations

Japanese semi-voiced mark — see handakuten

Anagrams

'umra, Amur, Mura, Umar, amur, arum, mura

Japanese

Romanization

maru

Rōmaji transcription of まる

Minoan

Noun

maru

villa

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

𑀫𑀭𑀼 (Brahmi script)
मरु (Devanagari script)
মরু (Bengali script)
මරු (Sinhalese script)
မရု (Burmese script)
มรุ (Thai script)
ᨾᩁᩩ (Tai Tham script)
មរុ (Khmer script)

Etymology 1

Noun

maru m

deity

Declension

Declension table of "maru" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	maru	maravo or marū
Accusative (second)	maruṃ	maravo or marū
Instrumental (third)	marunā	marūhi or marūbhi
Dative (fourth)	marussa or maruno	marūnaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	marusmā or marumhā	marūhi or marūbhi
Genitive (sixth)	marussa or maruno	marūnaṃ
Locative (seventh)	marusmiṃ or marumhi	marūsu
Vocative (calling)	maru	marave or maravo

Etymology 2

Noun

maru f

sand
(by extension) sandy waste

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