Maru
# Maru

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
* 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
