title: Maru
text: # 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
  