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

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