おかん

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Japanese[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Alternative spellings
御母ん
お母ん
御母
お母

Contraction of おかあはん (okā-han).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

おかん or オカン • (okan) 

  1. (Kansai) mother
    オカンの料理(りょうり)
    okan no ryōri
    (Kansai) mom's cooking
    オカン系男子(けいだんし)
    okan-kei danshi
    boy with motherly instincts (fiction trope)

Etymology 2[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of おかん – see the following entry.
【悪寒】
[noun] ague (chill, or state of shaking, as with cold)
(This term, おかん, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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