お母さん
Japanese
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 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
- Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) おかあさん [òkáꜜàsàǹ] (Nakadaka – [2])[1]
- IPA(key): [o̞ka̠ːsã̠ɴ]
Noun
お母さん (hiragana おかあさん, rōmaji okāsan)
- (honorific) mother; one's mother
Alternative forms
- (honorific, polite) 御母様 (okāsama)
- (honorific, polite) 御母様 (okakasama)
- (honorific, childish) 御母様 (otāsama)
- (honorific, childish) 御母様 (otatasama)
- (honorific, polite) 御嬶様 (okakasama)
- (honorific, archaic) 御母さん (okakasan)
- (honorific, archaic) 御嬶さん (okakasan)
Descendants
- Min Nan: 卡桑 (khà-sàng) (Taiwanese)
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: (informal) one's mother
- 御袋 (ofukuro): (informal) one's mother
- 母堂 (bodō): (formal, written) one's mother
- 母様 (kāsama)
- 母さん (kakasan)
- 御母 (okaka)
- 御嬶 (okaka)
References
- 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN