お釜

Japanese
Kanji in this term
釜
かま
Grade: S
kun’yomi

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

Alternative forms

Noun

お釜 (hiragana おかま, katakana オカマ, rōmaji okama)

  1. pot
  2. a volcanic caldera
  3. (slang) someone's posterior or butt, particularly a man's butt
  4. (slang, LGBT or sometimes offensive) male homosexual
  5. (slang, sometimes offensive) a man who behaves or speaks like a woman; a womanly man
  6. (dated) one's wife
  7. (archaic) a serving woman, a female servant

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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