お母さん
Japanese
Etymology
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/ → /okaːsan/
/okakasama/ → /okakasan/ → /okaːsan/
Pronunciation
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Noun
Alternative forms
- (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)
Descendants
See also
- 母 (haha): 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)
References
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 母 read as かあ
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese terms prefixed with お
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 1 kanji
- Japanese entries with topic categories using raw markup
- Japanese entries with language name categories using raw markup
- Japanese honorific terms
- Japanese basic words
- Japanese words suffixed with さん
- ja:Family