“father” in Maru

Meaning in English

1. (noun) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) 2. (noun) ‘Father’ is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); ‘Padre’ is frequently used in the military 3. (noun) God when considered as the first person in the Trinity 4. (noun) the founder of a family 5. (noun) (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom 6. (noun) a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization 7. (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution 8. (noun) the head of an organized crime family 9. (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction

Definition: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0)