あま
Meanings
Noun
Colloquialism
1. nun
2. bitch
3. Amagasaki, Hyogo
abbr. 尼崎
4. Amazon (online retailer)
Pitch accent
Composed of
first Sanskrit alphabet letter; Africa; Awa (old province of Japan); (arch.) prefixed to names to show intimacy
demon; devil; evil spirit; -crazed person; -obsessed person; fiend
Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)
native of Amagasaki; (arch.) bitch
to love one's child too much for their own good; (lit.) to love one's daughter so much as to make her a nun
minister or general's wife who became a nun