oyabun

1. 1.

   a Japanese supervisor

   Broadersupervisor

Other forms of oyabun

plural

oyabuns·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about oyabun

What does oyabun mean?

oyabun means "a Japanese supervisor".

How many syllables are in oyabun?

oyabun has 2 syllables: oya-bun. The stress falls on "oya".

Is oyabun a common word?

oyabun is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.