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The Japanese word for mother is

はは - haha



mother

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


     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)



     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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