name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A Japanese ship, especially a merchant ship.

   "the Nippon Maru"

2. 2
   A semi-voiced diacritic (゜) used with Japanese kana to change a /h/ to a /p/. colloquial
3. 3
   A large, circular punctuation mark (。) used as a full stop in Japanese text.

Proper Noun

1. 1
   Synonym of Lhao Vo (“a Burmish language”).
2. 2
   A Māori god of war.

Synonyms

All synonyms

handakutenlhao vonigori

Example

More examples

"Maru crawled out from under the table."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

From Māori [Term?].

Related phrases

Kobayashi Marufull stopsemi voiced

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.