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, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

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