Marun.

Brit.

/ˈmaruː/,

/ˈmɑːruː/, U.S.

/ˈmɑru/

Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese maru.

Etymology: < Japanese maru, second element of the names of merchant ships (16th cent. or earlier; earlier maro), of uncertain origin.The element Japanese maru was formerly suffixed to the names of a wide range of valued items, such as swords, musical instruments, pieces of armour, dogs, hawks, and the concentric circles of castles (12th cent. in these uses). It is probably an alteration, after maru circle (which also connotes wholeness or completeness), of maro, an archaic term of endearment found in ancient proper names.

As a pre- or postmodifier: designating a Japanese merchant ship. Hence in Nautical slang (U.S.): a Japanese (or, by extension, U.S.) ship of any kind.

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1840 in K. Plummer Japanese Glimpse at Outside World (1991) 149 The Chojamaru was engaged..in the coasting trade.

1889 B. H. Chamberlain Handbk. Colloq. Japanese 495 Maru, a word helping to form the names of merchant ships, as ‘Tōkyō Maru’.]

1903 H. C. Rowland Sea Scamps 123 One of the big Maru steamers was coming up the bay.

1934 U. Close Challenge iv. 53 The shogunal ships were called maru—a word whose origin is lost but which is written with the Chinese character for ‘tub’ or ‘pill’—to the joy of wits who wish to find fault with a Japanese vessel today. Maru has come to be the equivalent of the western ‘S.S.’ although it is applied to anything afloat.

1942 R. Casey Torpedo Junction 216 There are said to be one large ‘maru’ and four smaller ‘marus’ in the lagoon at Wake.

1943 R. J. Casey Torpedo Junction (ed. 2) 10 In Navy slang any Japanese ship is now a maru unless it's a battleship when it's a san.

1962 F. Bonham War beneath Sea 34 Maybe this man had maru fever. Maybe when he saw a Jap maru steaming along, he'd..start throwing torpedoes like rocks.

1999 D. Hansen Sole Survivor v. 57 Everything was Something Maru. It hadn't been so very long ago when every ship in port had boasted British registration.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	maru
释义	Marun. Brit. /ˈmaruː/, /ˈmɑːruː/, U.S. /ˈmɑru/ Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese maru. Etymology: < Japanese maru, second element of the names of merchant ships (16th cent. or earlier; earlier maro), of uncertain origin.The element Japanese maru was formerly suffixed to the names of a wide range of valued items, such as swords, musical instruments, pieces of armour, dogs, hawks, and the concentric circles of castles (12th cent. in these uses). It is probably an alteration, after maru circle (which also connotes wholeness or completeness), of maro, an archaic term of endearment found in ancient proper names. As a pre- or postmodifier: designating a Japanese merchant ship. Hence in Nautical slang (U.S.): a Japanese (or, by extension, U.S.) ship of any kind. ΚΠ 1840 in K. Plummer Japanese Glimpse at Outside World (1991) 149 The Chojamaru was engaged..in the coasting trade. 1889 B. H. Chamberlain Handbk. Colloq. Japanese 495 Maru, a word helping to form the names of merchant ships, as ‘Tōkyō Maru’.] 1903 H. C. Rowland Sea Scamps 123 One of the big Maru steamers was coming up the bay. 1934 U. Close Challenge iv. 53 The shogunal ships were called maru—a word whose origin is lost but which is written with the Chinese character for ‘tub’ or ‘pill’—to the joy of wits who wish to find fault with a Japanese vessel today. Maru has come to be the equivalent of the western ‘S.S.’ although it is applied to anything afloat. 1942 R. Casey Torpedo Junction 216 There are said to be one large ‘maru’ and four smaller ‘marus’ in the lagoon at Wake. 1943 R. J. Casey Torpedo Junction (ed. 2) 10 In Navy slang any Japanese ship is now a maru unless it's a battleship when it's a san. 1962 F. Bonham War beneath Sea 34 Maybe this man had maru fever. Maybe when he saw a Jap maru steaming along, he'd..start throwing torpedoes like rocks. 1999 D. Hansen Sole Survivor v. 57 Everything was Something Maru. It hadn't been so very long ago when every ship in port had boasted British registration. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1903
随便看	to come into the open to come into the reckoning to come into the world to come into to take force to come into use to come into view to come into vogue to come into wear to come it to come it over a person to come it strong to come it with a person to come lag of to come late to the party to come leave out of the reckoning to come lie under, within, beyond, out of the cognizance to come mumbudgeting to come natural to come naturally to to come near to come near to to come nowhere to do a person's turn to do a porpoise to do a rat