different between maru vs tenten

English

Etymology

From Japanese ?, ? (??, maru, “circle”, also a suffix for ship names).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m???u?/, /?ma?u?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m??u/

Noun

maru (plural marus)

1. (prepositive or postpositive) A suffix of Japanese ship names.

2. (colloquial) A semi-voiced diacritic (?) used with Japanese kana to change a /h/ to a /p/.

   Synonym: handakuten

3. A large, circular punctuation mark (?) used as a full stop in Japanese text.

Coordinate terms

• nigori

Translations

Anagrams

• 'umra, Amur, Mura, Umar, amur, arum, mura

Anguthimri

Noun

maru

1. (Mpakwithi) queenfish

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

Japanese

Romanization

maru

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

maru f (definite singular maro, indefinite plural marur, definite plural marune)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1917; superseded by mare

Anagrams

• maur, mura

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

maru m

1. deity

Declension

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

maru f

1. sand
2. (by extension) sandy waste

English

Alternative forms

• ten-ten, ten ten

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (????, tenten, literally “dots”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?nt?n/

Noun

tenten (plural tentens)

1. (colloquial) A diacritic (?) used with Japanese kana to mark a consonant as voiced.

   Synonyms: (colloquial) nigori, dakuten

Related terms

• handakuten (maru)

Translations

Anagrams

• entent, net net, net-net, tenent

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nt?n

Noun

tenten

1. Plural form of tent

Anagrams

• netten