maru
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Japanese 円, 丸 (まる, maru, “circle”, also a suffix for ship names).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
maru (plural marus)
- (prepositive or postpositive) A suffix of Japanese ship names.
- the Nippon Maru
- (colloquial) A semi-voiced diacritic (゜) used with Japanese kana to change a /h/ to a /p/.
- Synonym: handakuten
- A large, circular punctuation mark (。) used as a full stop in Japanese text.
Coordinate termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
Japanese semi-voiced mark — see handakuten
AnagramsEdit
AnguthimriEdit
NounEdit
maru
- (Mpakwithi) queenfish
ReferencesEdit
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
maru
Norwegian NynorskEdit
NounEdit
maru f (definite singular maro, indefinite plural marur, definite plural marune)
AnagramsEdit
PaliEdit
Alternative formsEdit
Alternative forms
Etymology 1Edit
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NounEdit
maru m
DeclensionEdit
Declension table of "maru" (masculine)
| Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative (first) | maru | maravo or marū |
| Accusative (second) | maruṃ | maravo or marū |
| Instrumental (third) | marunā | marūhi or marūbhi |
| Dative (fourth) | marussa or maruno | marūnaṃ |
| Ablative (fifth) | marusmā or marumhā | marūhi or marūbhi |
| Genitive (sixth) | marussa or maruno | marūnaṃ |
| Locative (seventh) | marusmiṃ or marumhi | marūsu |
| Vocative (calling) | maru | marave or maravo |
Etymology 2Edit
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NounEdit
maru f
- sand
- (by extension) sandy waste