The Japanese word for mother is
母
はは - haha
Japanese Definition
| mother | |
| 1. 名詞. 母親、お母さん。 | |
| 2. 名詞. 源泉、母体。 | |
| 3. 動詞. （母親として）世話する。 | |
| 4. 動詞. 甘やかす。 | |
| 5. 形容詞. 母親の。 | |
| 6. 形容詞. 源泉となる、母体となる。 |
Translations for mother and their definitions
| お母さん | |
| 1. n. (honorific) mother; one's mother |
| 母 | |
| 1. Usage: In isolation, the character 母 has 5 strokes in modern Japanese – it is not simplified. In 新字体, sc=Latn, shinjitai compound characters, such as 毎 or 海, it is simplified to 4 strokes, as 毋 | |
| 2. n. mother | |
| (ja-x, 織%田%信%長の母は謎が多い。, お%だ% のぶ%なが の はは は なぞ が おおい。, Oda Nobunaga's mother was a mysterious woman.) | |
| 3. n. Usage: * This term conveys neither positive nor negative connotations. However, using it to describe someone the speaker knows personally is often considered lacking respect, where more polite | |
| 4. n. Usage: * This term is sometimes used in objective narrations, but for this purpose | |
| 5. n. (humble) mother | |
| 6. n. Usage: Obsolete in mainstream (cog, ja, -). May persist in dialects. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) mother | |
| 8. n. Usage: Not found in isolation, only found in compounds. Obsolete and unused in modern (cog, ja, -). | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) mother | |
| 10. n. a woman who breastfeeds and raises a child in place of a parent: a wet nurse | |
| 11. n. (childish) mommy, mummy | |
| 12. n. (obsolete) wife | |
| Seen in the (Edo period) among the lower socioeconomic classes. Used to refer both to one's own wife when talking to others, and to refer to someone else's wife. | |
| 13. n. mother | |
| 14. n. Usage: Almost never seen in isolation. Most commonly seen with honorific prefix o- and honorific suffix -san, as | |
| 母親 | |
| 1. n. mother |
| ママ | |
| 1. n. (childish) mama, mamma, a childish form of mother, one's female parent | |
| 2. n. proprietress of a drinking establishment etc. |
| お袋 | |
| 1. n. Alternative spelling of 御袋 (one's mother) |
| 元 | |
| 1. n. cause, origin | |
| 2. n. basis, foundation | |
| 3. n. cost | |
| 元がとれる - to be able to cover the cost | |
| 4. n. (finance) capital | |
| 2000円の元を取る - literally to take the 2000 yen principal | |
| 5. n. principal | |
| 6. prefix. former, erstwhile | |
| 元カレ、元カノ - former boyfriend, former girlfriend | |
| プロジェクトの元・担当者の田中氏 - former project manager Tanaka | |
| 7. n. yuan (currency) |
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