おかま

Japanese
Alternative spellings
御釜
お釜
御窯
お窯
オカマ

Etymology

Compound of 御 (o-, “honorific prefix”) +‎ 釜 (kama, “pot”).[1]

The development of the slang senses appear to have started from an analogy comparing a man's butt to the shape of certain pots.

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) おかま [òkámá] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA(key): [o̞ka̠ma̠]

Noun

おかま • (okama) 

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see お,‎ 釜.
    1. a pot
  2. a volcanic caldera
  3. (dated) one's wife
  4. (archaic) a serving woman, a female servant
  5. (slang) someone's posterior or butt, particularly a man's butt
  6. オカマ: (slang, LGBT or sometimes offensive) faggot (male homosexual)
  7. オカマ: (slang, sometimes offensive) a man who behaves or speaks like a woman; a womanly man

See also

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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