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

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
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 Japanese rebus monogram § Variations
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

See also
All pages with titles containing Maru
Măru (disambiguation)
Thar (disambiguation), thar and maru are generic terms for deserts in Indic languages