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 , 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 Marusthal or Maru Sthal, a desert in India and Pakistan Marwar, a region of the Indian state of Rajasthan in the Thar Desert Marwari (disambiguation) Maru or Marwar[i], a character, the princess of Pugal, in the Rajasthani folktale Dhola Maru Maru Pradesh or Maru Sthali, a region and proposed state 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: , hiragana: ), means circle; see Marujirushi (, correct mark); the opposite of batsu (×) Handakuten (, 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 (novel), a 1971 novel by Bessie Head WD 0806−661, a star 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 A Japanese unit of mass

See also

Măru (disambiguation) Thar (disambiguation), thar and maru are generic terms for deserts in Indic languages Marus (disambiguation)