お釜
Japanese
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 釜 |
| かま Grade: S |
| kun’yomi |
Etymology
Compound of 御 (o-, “honorific prefix”) + 釜 (kama, “pot”).[1]
The development of the slang senses appear to have started from an analogy comparing a man's butt to the shape of certain pots.
Pronunciation
- Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) おかま [òkámá] (Heiban – [0])[2]
- IPA(key): [o̞ka̠ma̠]
Alternative forms
- 御釜
Noun
お釜 (hiragana おかま, katakana オカマ, rōmaji okama)
- pot
- a volcanic caldera
- (slang) someone's posterior or butt, particularly a man's butt
- (slang, LGBT or sometimes offensive) male homosexual
- (slang, sometimes offensive) a man who behaves or speaks like a woman; a womanly man
- (dated) one's wife
- (archaic) a serving woman, a female servant
See also
- お焦げ (okoge, “burnt residual food; fag hag”)
References
- 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN