Alternative spelling of 麻呂 (maru): attaches to names of persons or objects expressing dearness

(archaic, possibly obsolete) Alternative spelling of 麻呂 (maru): first-person singular, I, me

Malta

( . ) (full stop/period); marks the end of a sentence.

The handakuten, which indicates that a kana with an initial of h- should be pronounced with p- (i.e. ha with a handakuten is pronounced as pa). It is also sometimes used with k- kana to indicate ng- (a phoneme that is usually an allophone of /g/).

Indicating the start of a part in a song.

(archaic) to excrete

a surname

a log: unsawn lumber (UK) or timber (US), a section of a tree cut to a length and with the bark removed, but otherwise round and unfinished

a male given name