たま
Meanings
Noun
1. 丸い物。球状の物。
2. 丸く美しい宝石。
3. 綺麗な女性。転じて遊女や芸者。
4. その人の器を決めつけるときにあざけって言う語。
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Used in vocabulary (88 in total)
ladle; (hen's) egg
① ヒガンバナ科(旧ユリ科)の多年草。学名は。② 野菜の一種で、語義1の植物の鱗茎を食用としたもの。
testicles
drop of water; polka dots
white gem (esp. a pearl); rice flour dumpling; white-flowered camellia
eyeballs
pebble; round stone; boulder
egg soup
guts; pluck; nerve; spirit
palanquin set with jewels; money and social status gained by marrying a rich and powerful man
guts; pluck; nerve; spirit
Urashima's casket (in the story of Urashima Tarō); Pandora's box; one's closely guarded treasure
fly in the ointment; small flaw in otherwise perfect object; only trouble; only fault
fly in the ointment; small flaw in otherwise perfect object; only trouble; only fault
black ball; black, round sigil; pupil; black candy
out of bullets
fine jewel; article of excellent quality; beautiful woman; beauty
unpolished and uncut gem
dupion silk; silk that comes from a double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms
fireball; ball of fire; will-o'-the-wisp; jack-o'-lantern
① 藻の美称。
ball-toss game, in which balls are thrown into a basket on a high pole (played at sports festivals)
billiards; pool; serial collisions (of cars)
bad character; bad person; villain; baddie
branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering); sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica)
branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering); sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica)
beads of sweat
① コウチュウ目タマムシ科の甲虫の総称。学名:Buprestidae。夏の季語。② 語義1のうち、やまとたまむしの別称。③ 「玉虫色」の略。
① 宝玉を作って売る店。たますり。② 宝玉を売る人; 宝玉の作り手。たますり。③ 江戸時代にシャボン玉を売り歩く人。④ 花火屋の屋号。
bulletproof; protection (or charm) against bullets
man who marries a wealthy or upwardly-mobile woman; (male) gold digger
eyeball
steel made from iron sand or black sand (used in sword blades)
balancing on a ball
fetching balls (tennis, baseball, etc.); ball boy
dupion (double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms); dupioni; cocoon
Chinese dish with fried egg and crab
skin as beautiful as a gem; beautiful skin
course of a thrown ball; course of a hit ball (golf, tennis, etc.)
① キャベツのこと。球菜。
New Year ornament (usu. of straw, fern leaves, seaweed and bitter orange fruit, and hung at the entrance of a home)
soft-boiled egg marinated in soy and mirin
soft-boiled egg marinated in soy and mirin
apple of one's eye
udon with raw egg, and shoyu, dashi, etc.
thread knot (end of the thread tied up to a knot)
round; spherical; globe type; lens shape
① 銃弾を受けて出来た傷。
ball-shaped; spherical
broom (esp. one for sweeping a silkworm-raising room on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year); plant used for constructing brooms (e.g. kochia); liquor; alcohol
broom (esp. one for sweeping a silkworm-raising room on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year); plant used for constructing brooms (e.g. kochia); liquor; alcohol
street performance in which the performer transforms a specially made bamboo screen into various shapes while chanting an accompanying poem
ball control; focus on the ball
① 漢字の部首「⽟」が偏である場合の呼称。
French knot
miso ball; bean paste ball
slinging (on cranes, etc.)
slinging (on cranes, etc.)
bubble float (angling); bobber
bubble float (angling); bobber
curtain made of strung beads
sugidama; ball made from sprigs of Japanese cedar, traditionally hung in the eaves of sake breweries
football (soccer); kick to the groin; kneeing in the testicles
painted snipe (Rostratula benghalensis)
electric (light) bulb
era at the turn of 1960s into 70s dominated by grand champions Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi
half portion of noodles or fried rice; half ball (of noodles)
Cintamani stone; wish-fulfilling jewel
tamaryokucha; Japanese green tea similar to gunpowder tea
type of woolen fabric, esp. used for overcoats
type of woolen fabric, esp. used for overcoats
bamboo curtain; palace
ball bearings
bead string; thread of life
iceberg lettuce
Michelia compressa (species of Japanese tree similar to champak)
alias for fox (from a statue in the Inarimae shrine)
Arenicola brasiliensis (species of lugworm)
ball of dried, ground, fermented dyer's knotweed leaves
apple of one's eye
tuberous sword fern (Nephrolepis cordifolia)
rice seedling
beautiful (as if adorned with jewels)
Tamatsu Island (a fictional island in the Fortune Arterial visual novel)
Tamagawa Station (Osaka)
Omitama City
Examples (6 in total)
The children were rolling a big snowball.
Tom's cat is playing with a ball of yarn.
Galileo dropped two iron balls from the top of the tower.