Etymology of maru

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      "name": "ja-r",
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        "1": "丸",
        "2": "まる",
        "3": "circle; suffix used for ship names"
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      "expansion": "丸(まる) (maru, “circle; suffix used for ship names”)"
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    {
      "pos": "noun",
      "glosses": [
        "A Japanese ship, especially a merchant ship.",
        "A semi-voiced diacritic (゜) used with Japanese kana to change a /h/ to a /p/.",
        "A large, circular punctuation mark (。) used as a full stop in Japanese text."
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