maru

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

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

maru (plural marus)

1. A Japanese ship, especially a merchant ship.

   the Nippon Maru

   • 1941 November 23, “Pearly Harbor Attack”, in Hearings, volume 11:

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

   • 1985, Lawrence Cortesi, Valor in the Sky, page 21:

     Does the 9th Fleet have enough marus 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 more marus fell to torpedoes

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.

• nigori

• Kobayashi Maru

• “maru”, in OneLook 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 ãñʉ maru, 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 of ꦩꦫꦸ

maru

1. black, dark

• maru-maru

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

maru f (definite singular maro, indefinite plural marur, definite plural marune)

1. (pre-1917) alternative form of mare

• maur, mura

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

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

maru

1. co-wife (in a polygamous marriage)

maru

1. jealous

• madu

• > Javanese: ꦩꦫꦸ (maru) (inherited)

Borrowed from Sanskrit मरु (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.

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maru m

1. deity

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maru f

1. sand
2. (by extension) sandy waste