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Maru vs Mar - What's the difference?

maru | mar |

As nouns the difference between maru and mar

is that maru is a suffix of Japanese ship names while mar is a small lake.

As a verb mar is

to spoil, to damage.

As a proper noun Mar is

alternative form of Mar.|lang=en.

maru

English

Noun

  • A suffix of Japanese ship names.
  • :The Nippon Maru
  • (linguistics, colloquial) A diacritic ( ? ) used with Japanese kana to change an h'' to a ''p .
  • A large, circular punctuation mark ( ? ) used as a full stop in Japanese text.

    • Synonyms

    * (diacritics) handakuten

    See also

    * dakuten * nigori * tenten, ten-ten, ten ten

    Anagrams

    * * * * ----

    mar

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (marr)
  • To spoil, to damage.
  • * Dryden
    • But mirth is marred , and the good cheer is lost.
  • * Milton
    • Ire, envy, and despair / Which marred all his borrowed visage.

    Etymology 2

    See (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small lake.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l) * (l) * (l), (l), (l) * (l) ----