117 results for *祖*

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  1. Noun

    parent; parents; mother and father

    アナは、親が知らないうちに結婚した。
    Anna married without the knowledge of her parents.
  2. dealer; banker

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  3. founder; inventor

  4. (pet) owner

  5. Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no', Noun

    key; parent (organization); main

  6. Noun

    ancestor; forefather

Also written 祖【おや】

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祖父そふ

Noungrandfather · old man · kyogen mask used for the role of an old man

CommonN4
祖母そぼ

Noungrandmother

CommonN4

Nounancestor; forefather; progenitor · originator; pioneer; inventor; founder · grandfather

Common
教祖きょうそ

Nounfounder of a religious sect

Common
元祖がんそ

Nounoriginator; pioneer; inventor; founder · progenitor; primogenitor; founder of a family line

Common
宗祖しゅうそ

Nounsect founder

Common
先祖せんぞ

Nounancestor; forefather; foremother

CommonN2
祖国そこく

Nounhomeland; motherland; fatherland; native country

Common
祖先そせん

Nounancestor

CommonN2
祖父母そふぼ

Noungrandparents

Common
婆さんばあさん

Noungrandmother · old woman; female senior citizen

Common
爺さんじいさん

Noungrandfather · male senior-citizen

Common
婆ちゃんばあちゃん

Noungranny; grandma; gran · old lady; old woman

Common
お祖父さんおじいさん

Noungrandfather · male senior-citizen; old man

CommonN1
お祖母さんおばあさん

Noungrandmother · old woman; female senior citizen

CommonN1
お婆ちゃんおばあちゃん

Noungranny; grandma; gran · old lady; old woman

Common
遠祖えんそ

Nounremote ancestor; forefather

開祖かいそ

Noun(sect) founder; apostle; originator; inventor

始祖しそ

Nounfounder; originator; pioneer

人祖じんそ

Nounprogenitor

祖型そけい

Nounarchetype; prototype

太祖たいそ

Nounfounder; progenitor; emperor

天祖てんそ

Nounthe ancestral Sun Goddess

同祖どうそ

Nouncommon ancestry; sharing a common ancestor

鼻祖びそ

Nounfounder; originator; introducer

仏祖ぶっそ

NounFounder of Buddhism

祖宗そそう

Nounancestors

祖述そじゅつ

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verbexposition (propagation) of one's master's teachings or doctrines

父祖ふそ

Nounancestors

祖師そし

Nounfounder of a sect

祖語そご

Nounprotolanguage; parent language

祖廟そびょう

Nounmausoleum containing the remains of one's ancestors

皇祖こうそ

Noun(divine, historical or legendary) founder of an empire

高祖こうそ

Nounfounder of dynasty or sect

初祖しょそ

Nounthe first generation of a family; school (of thought) or religious sect

祖霊それい

Nounancestor spirit; ancestral soul; spirits of one's ancestors · collective ancestral spirit; (in Japanese folk belief) spirits of one's ancestors that have lost their individual identity and merged together

名祖なおや

Nouneponym (person after whom something is named)

皇祖おおじのみこと

Noungrandfather of the emperor

真祖しんそ

Noun(in fiction) person changed into a vampire by magic

藩祖はんそ

Nounancestor of a feudal lord · founder of a feudal domain

媽祖まそ

NounMazu (Chinese goddess of the sea)

祖神そしん

Nounancestor worshipped as a deity

祖妣そひ

Noundeceased grandmother

祖考そこう

Noundeceased grandfather; deceased father and grandfather · distant ancestor; forefather

祖業そぎょう

Nounbusiness started by an ancestor; inherited business

祖形そけい

Nounprotoform

御祖みおや

Nounancestor (esp. one's mother or grandmother)

祖法そほう

Nounrules and customs handed down over the generations

外祖父がいそふ

Nounmaternal grandfather