馬

utter fool; complete idiot; absolute moron

silly person; dumb-bunny; dope

Derogatory

stupid girl; stupid woman

Gunma Prefecture (Kanto area)

hack; inferior horse

Usu. humble

inferior person; incapable person

Archeology

clay horse (Kofun and Nara periods)

restive horse; runaway horse; out of control horse

prince on a white horse; knight on a white horse; Prince Charming

over-fond parent; doting parent

wooden horse; rocking horse

vaulting horse; horse used in gymnastics

the horse (ancient torture device that one was forced to straddle with rocks hanging from the feet)

bit (mouthpiece)

Buddhism; Shinto

votive tablet; wooden tablet usu. filled out with a prayer and one's name and hung up at a shrine or temple; orig. picturing a horse, as a stand-in for a donation of a live horse

splendid horse

Shogi

promoted bishop

Historical term

Tsushima (former province located on Tsushima Island in present-day Nagasaki Prefecture)

Tsushima (island)

Sports

mock cavalry battle; piggyback fight

stallion brought close to a mare to test her readiness to mate

stalking horse; spoiler

hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius); hippo

stagecoach

Familiar

horse; horsie

the spirit of curiosity

(horse-drawn) cab; gharry; fiacre

foolish talk; idle talk

donkey; ass

Latin alphabet; Roman alphabet

romaji; romanized Japanese; system of transliterating Japanese into the Latin alphabet