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まんま【飯】

manma

Pronunciation: /maNma/ [mamːa]

Definition

Noun

  1. (Colloquial, babytalk) Cooked rice; meal; food

Etymology

Cognate with the standard Japanese form おまんま【お飯】 omanma "cooked rice; meal", also perceived as baby talk in the standard language. It is believed to have derived from a contraction of the reduplicated form of the adjective うまい umai "delicious, tasty" (Yonekawa, Akihiko. "World Around Us" Beyond Polite Japanese: A Dictionary of Japanese Slang and Colloquialisms. Japan: Kodansha International, 2001. 98. Print.).

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Kanaまんま
Romanizationmanma
Pronunciation (IPA)/maNma/ [mamːa]

意味:ごはん【ご飯・御飯】、しょくじ【食事】

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Cite this entry: Read, Zachary. (2024, June 27). まんま【飯】 : manma | define meaning. JLect: Japonic Languages and Dialects Database. Retrieved 2024, December 3, from https://www.jlect.com/entry/376/manma/.