ウマ
Meanings
Noun
1. horse
I just fell off a horse.
2. horse racing
I won thirty thousand yen on the horses yesterday.
3. promoted bishop
4. knight (court card in mekuri karuta and unsun karuta)
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (108 in total)
to get on well (with someone); (lit.) to be a good match with one's horse
small horse; pony; foal; colt; filly
camel cricket (Diestrammena apicalis); camelback cricket; cave cricket; spider cricket
to get on well (with someone); (lit.) to be a good match with one's horse
curious onlookers; rubbernecks
points wagered by a spectator to match the winnings and losses of a particular player
come-from-behind horse
birthwort (Aristolochia debilis)
person of doubtful origin
stilts (for walking); (arch.) hobby horse
unburdened horse
horse botfly (Gasterophilus intestinalis)
small horse; pony; foal; colt; filly
cart-horse; work-horse; doing something wholeheartedly; doing with one's undivided attention
scrawny horse
white horse
horse; horsie
mare; filly
wild horse; pastured horse; grazing horse
dark-colored horse with a lustrous coat (coloured); white horse
hung like a horse; big-dicked
hung like a horse; big-dicked
buttercup (Ranunculus japonicus)
equine influenza; horse flu
horseback riding; sitting astride; straddling
post horse; mounted courier; express messenger on horseback; fast horse; swift horse
stable; barn
stallion brought close to a mare to test her readiness to mate; stalking horse; spoiler
horse's back; (mountain) ridge; arête; road along a ridge
votive tablet; wooden tablet usu. filled out with a prayer and one's name and hung up at a shrine or temple; orig. picturing a horse, as a stand-in for a donation of a live horse
restive horse; unmanageable person (esp. a woman); shrew; stubborn tomboy
minor or untalented actor (relegated to roles such as the legs of a stage horse); (lit.) horse's legs
person of doubtful origin
daimyo's mounted guard
coaching inn
packhorse; workhorse; hack
studhorse; stallion; breeding horse
pack horse
seahorse; sea horse
packhorse driver
fodder (for horses or cows); hay; feed
horseface; long thin face
male horse
male horse
unsaddled horse
winning horse; winner
owner of a horse (esp. racehorse)
long roofed passageway (originally having an earthen floor and used as a bridle path)
ornately decorated horse used in processions of dignitaries; horse led by a rope
horse market
preaching to the deaf; (lit.) chanting the nembutsu into a horse's ear
person that raises horses; horse breeder
mirrored version of the kanji character "uma" (usu. depicted on a shogi piece; considered auspicious)
untamed horse; unbroken horse; wild horse; bronco
bucking horse; unmanageable horse
black horse
hung like a horse; big-dicked
red horse; menstruation; fire; conflagration
front runner
live horse; living horse
(game of) leapfrog; leapfrogging
horses owned; horse owned
cavalry; cavalry battle
buttocks of a horse being ridden or followed; blindly following suit
points wagered by a spectator to match the winnings and losses of a particular player
point along a (mountain) pass beyond which a horse cannot travel
bill collector for the night's entertainment; followers
traditional horse-racing; originally two horses head-to-head or ten at a time, esp. May 5 event at Kamigamo shrine
dark horse (candidate)
runaway horse; riderless horse
riding horse; saddle horse
bill collector for the night's entertainment; followers
racehorse
stablehand; groom
native Japanese horse
breaking in a horse
wild horse; unmanageable horse
kanji "horse" radical at left
Chagu Chagu Horse Festival (of Iwate Prefecture); small wooden horse toy with bells on its neck (made in Iwate Prefecture)
wood sledge
preaching to the deaf; (lit.) wind (blowing) into a horse's ear
horse doctor; horse veterinarian
birds of a feather flock together; horses work best together; don't mix your horses with your cows
dead horse; stupid horse; useless horse; crowbait
sire (horse)
Tanabata straw horse
thrips (any insect of order Thysanoptera); thrip
great seahorse (Hippocampus kelloggi); Kellogg's seahorse; offshore seahorse
Arab (horse)
Przewalski's horse
quinella; quiniela
broodmare (horse breeding)
horse botfly
low geta (once used when cleaning the garden)
Przewalski's horse (Equus ferus przewalskii); Dzungarian horse
even an unruly horse can be tamed
hobby horse
TV antenna roof mount
to deliberately misinterpret; to invert right and wrong; (lit.) to point to a deer and call it a horse
building for observing horse racing, horseback archery, etc. (sometimes specifically that used by the emperor on the greater palace grounds)
horse armor; horse armour
speckled horse
yearling; one-year-old horse; first menstruation; sanitary napkin used during first menstruation
horse that bites people; biter
Examples (88 in total)
This is a horse.
To jump down from a horse.
He fell off the horse.