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

Fiction

 * Maru (Heavenly Delusion) (マル), a character from the anime and manga series Heavenly Delusion

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
 * Māru-Gurjara architecture, an architectural style of Rajasthan, India
 * 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
 * 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