maru

Definitions

1. Synonym of Lhao Vo (“a Burmish language”).
2. A Māori god of war.
3. A Japanese ship, especially a merchant ship.
4. A semi-voiced diacritic (゜) used with Japanese kana to change a /h/ to a /p/.
   colloquial
5. A large, circular punctuation mark (。) used as a full stop in Japanese text.

Examples

“the Nippon Maru”

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

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

“four more marus fell to torpedoes”

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