Parent

"Parent" in Japanese

保護者

hogosha

(person who acts as a parent in rearing a child — see also guardian)

父母

fubo

(person from whom one is descended)

oya

(person from whom one is descended)

oya

(biology: organism from which a plant or animal is biologically descended)

oya

(source or origin of something)

oya

(computing: object from which a child or derived object is descended)

養父母

yōfubo

(person who acts as a parent in rearing a child — see also guardian)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.