お母さん
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Japanese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Kanji in this term |
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母 |
かあ Grade: 2 |
kun’yomi |
お (o-, honorific prefix) + 母 (kā, “mother”) + さん (-san, honorific suffix).
/okakasama/ → /okaːsama/ or /okakasan/ → /okaːsan/
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “invented by the meiji-era 文部省 according to daijisen [1]”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (honorific, polite) 御母様 (okāsama), 御母様 (okakasama), 御嬶様 (okakasama)
- (honorific, childish) 御母様 (otāsama), 御母様 (otatasama)
- (honorific, archaic) 御母さん (okakasan), 御嬶さん (okakasan), 御っ母さん (okkasan)
Descendants[edit]
See also[edit]
- 母 (hawa): a mother
- 母 (kaka)
- 嚊 (kaka)
- 嬶 (kaka) (vulgar)
- ママ (mama): (childish) mama, a childish form of mother, one's female parent
- お袋 (ofukuro): (informal) one's mother
- 御袋 (ofukuro): (informal) one's mother
- 母堂 (podō): (formal, written) one's mother
- 母様 (kāsama)
- 母さん (kakasan)
- 御母 (okaka)
- 御嬶 (okaka)
- お母ん (okan) (Kansai)
References[edit]
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 母 read as かあ
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese terms prefixed with お
- Japanese terms suffixed with さん
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms written with one Han script character
- Japanese honorific terms
- ja:Female family members