おなか

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of おなか – see the following entries.

【お腹】	[noun] belly, tummy, stomach, abdomen Alternative spellings 御腹, 御中

[noun] a meal, especially of rice (from the way that the main serving dish would be placed in the 中 (naka, “middle”) of the table)

[noun] cotton batting (from the way that batting was used in the 中 (naka, “inside”) of cushions and quilts)

[noun] (historical) the title of a maid working in the inner part of a samurai family's house during the Muromachi period

Alternative spelling
お中

(This term, おなか, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)

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