Meaning of maru | Babel Free

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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