Maru

Maru may refer to:

People

• Maru (surname), a surname of Indic origin
• Maru Daba (born 1980), an Ethiopian runner
• Maru Sira (died 1975), a Sri Lankan criminal who was executed
• Hakudo Maru, a spirit in Japanese mythology who taught humans how to make ships
• Maru (mythology), a Māori war god
• Ngāti Maru (disambiguation), several Māori tribes of New Zealand

Places

• Maru, Estonia, village in Halliste Parish, Viljandi County, Estonia
• Maru (Irbid), village in Irbid, Jordan
• Maru, Iran (disambiguation)
• Maru, Kathmandu, a market and ceremonial square in Kathmandu, Nepal
• Maru, Nigeria, Local Government Area in Zamfara State
• Maru, Shwegu, a village in Shwegu Township in Bhamo District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma
• Maru-Aten, a palace or sun-temple in Armarna, Egypt
• Măru (disambiguation), the name of several villages in Romania
• Măru River (disambiguation) the name of several rivers in Romania
• Măru RoÅŸu (disambiguation), the name of several villages in Romania
• Mount Maru (disambiguation) (丸山), the name for several mountains on Hokkaidō, Japan

Language

• In Japanese:
  • maru (まる), meaning circle (â—¯; Unicode: U+25EF)
  • maru (まる), meaning "correct"; the opposite of batsu
  • maru (まる), meaning zero (0)
  • maru (丸), synonym for kuruwa, a type of Japanese castle wall
  • Synonym for handakuten, a Japanese diacritical mark ( ã‚œ) used in kana to change an h to a p
  • A Japanese punctuation mark (。) for the end-of-sentence fullstop
• Maru language, one of several languages spoken among the Kachin people in Myanmar/Burma and China.

Media and entertainment

• Maru, a novel by Bessie Head
• Maru (cat), a particular cat in Japan that has become an Internet celebrity
• Maru (comics), a fictional villain appearing in the Master of Kung Fu series published by Marvel Comics
• Maru's Mission, an action video game released in 1991 by Jaleco
• Maru Piravi, an Indian Tamil film
• Eureka Maru, a fictional starship from the television show Andromeda
• Kobayashi Maru, training exercise in the films Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and Star Trek (2009)
• Piper Maru, episode 3x15 of The X-Files
• Piper Maru, the name of an icebreaker in the film Alien vs. Predator

Ships

• The word maru is a common suffix to Japanese ship names. See Japanese ship-naming conventions. Notable examples include:
  • Daigo Fukuryu Maru, a fishing vessel exposed to radiation from a US nuclear test in 1954
  • Ehime Maru, a fishing training ship that collided with the USS Greeneville in 2001
  • Hashidate Maru, a Japanese oil tanker converted to factory whaling ship
  • Komagata Maru, a Japanese steam liner denied entry to Vancouver, Canada in 1914
  • Montevideo Maru, a Japanese ship sunk in World War II, resulting in the loss of large numbers of Australian prisoners of war and civilians and Australia's worst maritime disaster
  • Nippon Maru, flagship of daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 16th century fleet
  • Nisshin Maru, a Japanese whaling ship involved in collisions with Greenpeace vessels in 1999 and 2006, and with Sea Shepherd ships in 2013
  • No. 23 Nittō Maru, a patrol boat sunk after it encountered the USS Hornet (CV-8), causing the early launch of the Doolittle Raid
  • Ryō Un Maru, a Japanese fishing boat washed away from her moorings after the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami, and was deliberately sunk on 5 April 2012 after entering U.S. waters off the coast of Alaska.
  • Tatsuta Maru, a Japanese troopship sunk in 1943
  • Shinyo Maru, a cargo ship that served as a hell ship, which transferred prisoners of war during World War II. Sunk by the USS Paddle in September of 1944.
  • Kobayashi Maru, a fictional starship in the television series "Star Trek" which is part of a simulated test for Captain Kirk.

Other uses

• Alternate term for Madu, a weapon of Indian origin.
• Maru, one of the ragas of the Sikh religion

See also