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Obasan and obāsan are Japanese words meaning 'older woman' and 'grandmother' respectively, sometimes found in English in anime and manga.They may also mean: Obasan, a novel by Joy Kogawa, published in 1981
The following is a list of notable print, electronic, and online Japanese dictionaries. This is a sortable table: clicking the arrows in the header cells will cause the table rows to sort based on the selected column, in ascending order first, and subsequently toggling between ascending and descending order.
In Romance languages: "baby". In Japanese: Different meanings depending on the kanji used. In Turkic languages: "grandmother". Other names; Variant form(s)
Terms are often too specific or too general to translate into another language. Some rules used for defining kinship terminology include the following: Paternal or maternal. For example, Nordic languages, Indo-Aryan languages and Chinese languages distinguish paternal and maternal relatives such as paternal grandmother and maternal grandmother ...
Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...
The Dutch translator Hori Tatsunosuke (堀達之助), who interpreted for Commodore Perry, compiled the first true English–Japanese dictionary: A Pocket Dictionary of the English and Japanese Language (英和対訳袖珍辞書, Yosho-Shirabedokoro, 1862). It was based upon English-Dutch and Dutch-Japanese bilingual dictionaries, and contained ...
Grandma and Grandpa are out. Gigi, Lolly and Pop are in. From Beep to Glama, why grandparents are choosing unique nicknames: 'I am way too cute and hip to be a grandma'
The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking to, or referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.