お釜(かま)

おかま
noun
pot; rice cooker pot; rear-end collision
daily-lifefood
1. pot; iron pot; rice cooker pot
A cooking pot, especially the inner pot of a rice cooker or a traditional iron cooking pot. The お is a polite prefix.
炊飯器(すいはんき)のお釜(かま)を洗(あら)う。
To wash the rice cooker pot.
このお釜(かま)で炊(た)いたご飯(はん)はおいしい。
Rice cooked in this pot is delicious.
昔(むかし)は鉄(てつ)のお釜(かま)でご飯(はん)を炊(た)いていた。
In the old days, they used to cook rice in an iron pot.
2. rear-end collision (in the phrase おかまを掘る)
Used in the fixed expression お釜(かま)を掘(ほ)る, meaning to rear-end another vehicle.
信号(しんごう)待(ま)ちでお釜(かま)を掘(ほ)られた。
I got rear-ended while waiting at a traffic light.
前(まえ)の車(くるま)が急(きゅう)ブレーキをかけて、お釜(かま)を掘(ほ)りそうになった。
The car ahead slammed on the brakes, and I almost rear-ended it.
渋滞(じゅうたい)中(ちゅう)にお釜(かま)を掘(ほ)られる事故(じこ)が多(おお)い。
Rear-end collisions are common during traffic jams.

The basic meaning is a cooking pot, especially for rice. The word 釜(かま) without the honorific お is also common. The phrase お釜(かま)を掘(ほ)る (literally "to dig into someone's pot") is the standard colloquial expression for a rear-end collision.

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Related: 鍋(なべ) (pot, pan)
Related: 追突(ついとつ) (rear-end collision)
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Added 2026.4.3 6:27 · Revised 2026.9.2 13:02
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