FromJapanese丸(まる)(maru,“circle; suffix used for ship names”).

• (UK)IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːɹuː/,/ˈmaɹuː/
• (US)IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹu/
• Rhymes:-ɑːɹuː

maru (pluralmarus)

1. AJapaneseship, especially a merchant ship.

   the NipponMaru

   • 1941 November 23, “Pearly Harbor Attack”, inHearings, volume11:

     Intelligence Report[…] It is possible that there may be an increase in the number of transports andmarus.

   • 1985, Lawrence Cortesi,Valor in the Sky, page21:

     Does the 9th Fleet have enoughmarus and warships to carry two divisions of troops and their supplies to Buna?

   • 1992, Edward J. Drea,MacArthur's ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War Against Japan, 1942-1945, University Press of Kansas:

     four moremarus fell to torpedoes

2. (colloquial) Asemi-voiceddiacritic (゜) used with Japanesekana to change a/h/ to a/p/.

   Synonym:handakuten

3. A large, circularpunctuation mark (。) used as afull stop in Japanese text.

• nigori

• Kobayashi Maru

• “maru”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

• 'umra,Amur,Mura,Umar,amur,arum,mura

maru

1. (Mpakwithi)queenfish

• Terry Crowley,The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

• IPA^(key): /bãˈɾu/

maru

1. if (in nasal environment).

   Ijimʉ moare ãñʉmaru, ãmeno nʉcʉyʉme.

   If the patient eats fish, he will get worse.

• baru

• N. L. Morse; J. K. Salser; N. de Salser (1999), "maru", in Diccionario ilustrado bilingüe: cubeo-español, espanõl-cubeo,→ISBN
• N. L. Morse; M. B. Maxwell (1999), Cubeo Grammar: Studies in the languages of Colombia 5, Summer Institute of Linguistics,→ISBN

maru

1. Rōmaji transcription ofまる

maru

1. romanization ofꦩꦫꦸ

maru

1. black,dark

• maru-maru

Amee Glass; Dorothy Hackett (2003),Ngaanyatjarra & Ngaatjatjarra to English Dictionary, IAD Press,→ISBN

maru f (definite singularmaro,indefinite pluralmarur,definite pluralmarune)

1. (pre-1917)alternative form ofmare

• maur,mura

• IPA^(key): /ma.ru/
• Rhymes:-ru
• Hyphenation:ma‧ru

Affixedro,rwa(“two”) +‎ma-(“active verb prefix”).

maru

1. co-wife (in a polygamous marriage)

maru

1. jealous

• madu

• > Javanese:ꦩꦫꦸ(maru)(inherited)

Borrowed fromSanskritमरु(maru,“wilderness”).

maru

1. wilderness
2. sandy waste,desert

• "maru" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson,Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

maru m

1. deity

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maru f

1. sand
2. (by extension) sandy waste

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