オカマ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of オカマ – see the following entry.

【おかま】 [noun] Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see お,‎ 釜. [noun] a cooking pot [noun] a volcanic caldera [noun] (dated) one's wife [noun] (archaic) a serving woman, a female servant [noun] (slang) someone's posterior or butt, particularly a man's butt [noun] オカマ: (slang, LGBTQ, sometimes offensive) a gay man, a (male) homosexual [noun] オカマ: (slang, sometimes offensive) a man who behaves or speaks like a woman; a womanly man Alternative spellings 御釜, お釜, 御窯, お窯

(This term, オカマ (okama), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)