maru

plural marus

1. A Japanese ship, especially a merchant ship.

   the Nippon Maru

   3 more examples

   Intelligence Report […] It is possible that there may be an increase in the number of transports and marus.

   1941 November 23, “Pearly Harbor Attack”, in Hearings, volume 11

   Does the 9th Fleet have enough marus and warships to carry two divisions of troops and their supplies to Buna?

   1985, Lawrence Cortesi, Valor in the Sky, page 21

   four more marus fell to torpedoes

   1992, Edward J. Drea, MacArthur's ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War Against Japan, 1942-1945, University Press of Kansas

2. colloquialA semi-voiced diacritic (゜) used with Japanese kana to change a /h/ to a /p/.

   Synonyms: handakuten

3. A large, circular punctuation mark (。) used as a full stop in Japanese text.

1. Synonym of Lhao Vo (“a Burmish language”).

   Synonyms: Lhao Vo

1. A Māori god of war.

1. A female given name.