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Plural of maru

regular plural

The plural of maru is marus.

Forms of maru

Singularmaru /ˈmɑːɹuː/
Pluralmarus
Countablecountable

Marus in a sentence

  • 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 torpedoes1992, Edward J. Drea, MacArthur's ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War Against Japan, 1942-1945, University Press of Kansas

Meaning of maru

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

Full definition of maru

Questions about the plural of maru

What is the plural of maru?
The plural of maru is marus.
Is maru countable?
Maru is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maru (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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