おかん

Japanese

Etymology 1

    Alternative spellings
    御母ん
    お母ん
    御母
    お母

    Contraction of おかあはん (okā-han).[1]

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [o̞kã̠ɴ]

    Noun

    おかん or オカン • (okan) 

    1. (Kansai) mother
      オカンの料理(りょうり)
      okan no ryōri
      (Kansai) mom's cooking
      オカン系男子(けいだんし)
      okan-kei danshi
      boy with motherly instincts (fiction trope)

    Etymology 2

    For pronunciation and definitions of おかん – see the following entry.
    【悪寒】
    [noun] ague (chill, or state of shaking, as with cold)
    (This term, おかん (okan), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

    References

    1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (1995), 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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