かま

See also: がま

Japanese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of かま – see the following entry.

【鎌】S [noun] a sickle [noun] a sickle-shaped weapon, such as a polearm with a sickle-shaped blade, or a 鎖鎌 (kusarigama) [noun] short for 火打鎌 (hiuchigama, “a striker for lighting fires”) (from the way that pieces of a broken kama blade were used for this purpose) [noun] (slang) a perverse or bent tendency or way of thinking (from the way a kama blade bends) [noun] (slang) a person with a perverse or bent tendency or way of thinking [noun] a category of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) featuring a sickle [noun] (woodworking) short for 鎌継 (kamatsugi, “hammer-headed tenon”) (from the way the sickle blade sticks out perpendicular to the handle, similar to the sides of the hammer head on this kind of tenon) [noun] (slang) excessive talkativeness (probably by sound association with the word 喧しい (yakamashii, “noisy”)) [noun] (slang) an excessively talkative person [noun] (slang) a penis (probably from the way that a sickle blade sticks out perpendicular to the handle)

(This term, かま (kama), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.) For a list of all kanji read as かま, see Category:Japanese kanji read as かま.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) かま [káꜜmà] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠ma̠]

Noun

かま • (kama) ^{←かま (kama)?}

1. area of a fish around the gills

Derived terms

• ぶりかま (burikama): a dish prepared from the head of 鰤 (buri, “Japanese amberjack”)

Etymology 3

Alternative spellings
釜 窯 竃 竈 缶

From Old Japanese, signifying a container for high heat and referring variously to a hearth, oven, pot, kettle; in turn from Proto-Japonic *kama. Possibly cognate with Korean 가마 (gama, “kiln; oven”) or Middle Chinese 坩 (kham, “earthenware”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) かま [kàmá] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠ma̠]

Noun

かま • (kama) ^{←かま (kama)?}

1. 釜: a rice-cooker
2. 窯: a kiln, an oven
3. 竃, 竈: a kitchen range
4. 缶: a boiler, as for a steam engine

Synonyms

• (boiler): ボイラー (boirā)

Etymology 4

Noun

かま • (kama) ^{←かま (kama)?}

1. 蒲: cattail, bulrush