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)

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

Coordinate terms
  • nigori

Translations
Japanese semi-voiced mark — see handakuten

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

maru

  1. Rōmaji transcription of まる

Minoan

Etymology

Noun

maru

  1. villa

Pali

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • 𑀫𑀭𑀼 (Brahmi script)
  • मरु (Devanagari script)
  • মরু (Bengali script)
  • මරු (Sinhalese script)
  • မရု (Burmese script)
  • มรุ or มะรุ (Thai script)
  • ᨾᩁᩩ (Tai Tham script)
  • ມຣຸ or ມະຣຸ (Lao script)
  • មរុ (Khmer script)

Etymology 1

Noun

maru m

  1. deity
Declension
Declension table of "maru" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)marumaravo or marū
Accusative (second)maruṃmaravo or marū
Instrumental (third)marunāmarūhi or marūbhi
Dative (fourth)marussa or marunomarūnaṃ
Ablative (fifth)marusmā or marumhāmarūhi or marūbhi
Genitive (sixth)marussa or marunomarūnaṃ
Locative (seventh)marusmiṃ or marumhimarūsu
Vocative (calling)marumarave or maravo

Etymology 2

Noun

maru f

  1. sand
  2. (by extension) sandy waste
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