English Explanatory Dictionary

maru

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A Japanese ship, especially a merchant ship.
  2. A semi-voiced diacritic (゜) used with Japanese kana to change a /h/ to a /p/.
  3. A large, circular punctuation mark (。) used as a full stop in Japanese text.
name
  1. Synonym of Lhao Vo (“a Burmish language”).
name
  1. A Māori god of war.
name
  1. A female given name.

Pronunciation

/ˈmɑːɹuː/ /ˈmaɹuː/ /ˈmɑɹu/

Word forms

maru marus

Etymology

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

Synonyms

handakuten Lhao Vo

Derived words

Kobayashi Maru
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