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Maru can refer to

• Maru is a surname in Kutch, Gujarat, India.
• Maru (mythology) is a Māori war god.
• Tūmatauenga, the Māori god of war.
• Măru - a Romanian village.
• Maru, Nigeria, a Local Government Area in Zamfara State

• The Maru language, one of several languages spoken among the Kachin people in Myanmar/Burma and China.
• The 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 (丸) is a Japanese bailey (castle wall). See kuruwa.
• Maru is a popular name for Japanese pets, mainly cats. This is because Maru is slang for "demon" or "spirit".
  • Maru the Cat is an Internet phenomenon
• Maru Personified form of some celestial phenomenon, generally described as a glow in the heavens. This personification is an *important atua.
• Maru is a nickname for a young bull, or calf.
• The word maru is often attached as a suffix to Japanese ship names. See Japanese ship naming conventions.
  • 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.
  • Eureka Maru, a fictional starship from the television show Andromeda.
  • Hakudo Maru, the spirit in Japanese mythology who taught humans how to make ships
  • Kobayashi Maru, a fictional starship from the motion picture Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
  • 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.
  • 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.
• Maru is a common nickname in Spanish-speaking countries. It is a common nickname for Maria Eugenia and Maruja.
• Maru, a novel by Bessie Head
• Alternate term for Madu, a weapon of Indian origin.

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