Maru

Maru can refer to

Names

• Maru - surname found in people of Kutch & Saurashtra region of Gujarat, India, mainly found in Kutch Gurjar Kshatriyas & Kadia Kshatriyas communities. The surname is also found in Rajput community of Rajasthan.
• Maru (mythology) - Māori war god.
• Tūmatauenga - the Māori god of war.
• Maru - common nickname in Spanish-speaking countries. It is a common nickname for Maria Eugenia and Maruja.
• Maru - nickname for a young bull, or calf.
• Hakudo Maru - the spirit in Japanese mythology who taught humans how to make ships.

Places

• Măru - village in Zăvoi Commune, Caraş-Severin County, Romania
• Măru - village in Logreşti Commune, Gorj County, Romania
• Maru, Nigeria - a Local Government Area in Zamfara State
• Maru, Estonia - village in Halliste Parish, Viljandi County, Estonia
• Maru, Sri Lanka - means great in Sinhalese (Sri Lanka)

Ships (real)

• The word maru is often attached as a suffix to Japanese ship names. See Japanese ship naming conventions.
  • No.23 Nittō Maru - a patrol boat that was sunk after it encountered the USS Hornet (CV-8) and caused the early launch of the Doolittle Raid
  • Daigo Fukuryu Maru - a fishing vessel exposed to radiation from a 1954 US nuclear test.
  • Nippon Maru - flagship of daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 16th century fleet.
  • Ehime Maru - a fishing training ship that collided with the USS Greeneville in 2001.
  • Komagata Maru - a Japanese steam liner carrying 376 passengers from Punjab, India, that was not allowed to land in Vancouver, Canada, in 1914, and had to return to India.
  • Montevideo Maru - a Japanese auxiliary ship that was sunk in World War II, resulting in the drowning of a large number of Australian prisoners of war and civilians being transported from Rabaul.
  • Nisshin Maru - a Japanese whaling ship.

Ships (fictional)

• Piper Maru:
  • The name of a ship that experiences time shifts in Piper Maru, episode 3x15 of The X-Files.
  • The name of an icebreaker in the Alien vs. Predator film.
• Kobayashi Maru - training exercise at the Starfleet Academy in the motion picture Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
• Eureka Maru - a fictional starship from the television show Andromeda.

Other uses

• Maru - a novel by Bessie Head
• Maru language - one of several languages spoken among the Kachin people in Myanmar/Burma and China.
• Japanese name for a circle, which is used to mean "correct"; the opposite of batsu. The end-of-sentence fullstop '。' is also called maru. Maru also means zero '0' as in example 201: nii maru ichi
• Maru (丸) - Japanese bailey (castle wall). See kuruwa.
• Maru - popular name for Japanese pets, mainly cats.^{[citation needed]}.
  • Maru (cat) (まる, Japanese: circle or round) - a particular cat in Japan that has become an Internet celebrity.
• Maru Personified form of some celestial phenomenon, generally described as a glow in the heavens. This personification is an *important atua.
• Alternate term for Madu, a weapon of Indian origin.

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