かま
a sickle
a sickle-shaped weapon, such as a polearm with a sickle-shaped blade, or a 鎖鎌 (kusarigama)
short for 火打鎌 (hiuchigama): a striker for lighting fires (from the way that pieces of a broken kama blade were used for this purpose)
(slang) a perverse or bent tendency or way of thinking (from the way a kama blade bends)
(slang) a person with a perverse or bent tendency or way of thinking
a category of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) featuring a sickle
(woodworking) short for 鎌継ぎ (kamatsugi): a hammer-headed tenon (from the way the sickle blade sticks out perpendicular to the handle, similar to the sides of the hammer head on this kind of tenon)
(slang) excessive talkativeness (probably by sound association with the word 喧しい (yakamashii, “noisy”))
(slang) an excessively talkative person
(slang) a penis (probably from the way that a sickle blade sticks out perpendicular to the handle)
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a sickle / a sickle-shaped weapon, such as a polearm with a sickle-shaped blade, or a 鎖鎌 (kusarigama)
かま
He used a sickle to reap rice in the paddy field.
彼は田んぼでかまを使って稲を刈りました。
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