List: Kyoto-ben

Words specific of the Kyoto dialect, spoken in the city of Kyoto.

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おいでやす   oideyasu

  • welcome (in shops, etc.)

おこしやす   okoshiyasu

  • welcome (in shops, etc.)

上す  のぼす nobosu

  • to raise, to record, to bring up (a matter), to serve (food), to send some one out

上せる  のぼせる noboseru

Popular 

  • to raise, to record, to bring up (a matter), to serve (food), to send some on out

素人  しろうと shirouto

Popular  JLPT-2 

  • amateur, layman, ordinary person, novice
  • respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha)
  • unlicensed prostitute

姫  ひめ hime

Popular 

  • young lady of noble birth, princess (esp. in Western contexts, tales, etc.)
  • girl
  • small, cute, lesser (in names of species)
  • prostitute

ぼぼ   bobo

  • pussy (i.e. female genitals)
  • sexual intercourse

竈  くど kudo

  • smokehole on hearth
  • hearth, (kitchen) furnace

おす   osu

  • to be

どす   dosu

  • dagger, dirk, knife
  • threatening quality (in a voice, etc.)
  • muddy, turbid, murky, unclear
  • be, is