"mama-san" meaning in All languages combined

See mama-san on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈmaməˌsan/ [UK], /ˈmɑməˌsɑn/ [US] Forms: mama-sans [plural]
Etymology: From Japanese ママ with the honorific title さん. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|ja|ママ}} Japanese ママ, {{m|ja|さん}} さん Head templates: {{en-noun|head=mama-san}} mama-san (plural mama-sans)
  1. A mother, in Japan or East Asia. Categories (topical): Female family members, Parents
    Sense id: en-mama-san-en-noun-~wW7vAgS Disambiguation of Female family members: 73 27 Disambiguation of Parents: 86 14 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 90 10 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 89 11
  2. A woman in a position of authority, especially the madam of a geisha bar.
    Sense id: en-mama-san-en-noun-c8gnZAVh
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: mamasan, mammasan

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for mama-san meaning in All languages combined (2.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ja",
        "3": "ママ"
      },
      "expansion": "Japanese ママ",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "さん"
      },
      "expansion": "さん",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Japanese ママ with the honorific title さん.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mama-sans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "mama-san"
      },
      "expansion": "mama-san (plural mama-sans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "89 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "73 27",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Female family members",
          "orig": "en:Female family members",
          "parents": [
            "Family members",
            "Female people",
            "Family",
            "Female",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "86 14",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Parents",
          "orig": "en:Parents",
          "parents": [
            "Family members",
            "Family",
            "People",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A mother, in Japan or East Asia."
      ],
      "id": "en-mama-san-en-noun-~wW7vAgS",
      "links": [
        [
          "mother",
          "mother"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 340",
          "text": "‘I had a last go at the film festival, hoping those Thai mammasans would stir you up with some juice kiddy-porn.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 March 15, Jonathan Watts, The Guardian",
          "text": "\"We just get one very small meal – a single rice ball or piece of bread,\" said Mieko Kono, a hostess bar \"mama-san\" who looks spectacularly out of place in the municipal office, dolled up as she is in her work clothes of leopard-print top and slacks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A woman in a position of authority, especially the madam of a geisha bar."
      ],
      "id": "en-mama-san-en-noun-c8gnZAVh",
      "links": [
        [
          "madam",
          "madam"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmaməˌsan/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɑməˌsɑn/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "mamasan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "mammasan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mama-san"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Japanese",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English undefined derivations",
    "en:Female family members",
    "en:Parents"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ja",
        "3": "ママ"
      },
      "expansion": "Japanese ママ",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "さん"
      },
      "expansion": "さん",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Japanese ママ with the honorific title さん.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mama-sans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "mama-san"
      },
      "expansion": "mama-san (plural mama-sans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A mother, in Japan or East Asia."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mother",
          "mother"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 340",
          "text": "‘I had a last go at the film festival, hoping those Thai mammasans would stir you up with some juice kiddy-porn.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 March 15, Jonathan Watts, The Guardian",
          "text": "\"We just get one very small meal – a single rice ball or piece of bread,\" said Mieko Kono, a hostess bar \"mama-san\" who looks spectacularly out of place in the municipal office, dolled up as she is in her work clothes of leopard-print top and slacks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A woman in a position of authority, especially the madam of a geisha bar."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "madam",
          "madam"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmaməˌsan/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɑməˌsɑn/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "mamasan"
    },
    {
      "word": "mammasan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mama-san"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.