| 鎌 | かま | 1: sickle; 2: sickle-and-chain (weapon); 3: spear with curved cross-blades; 4: gooseneck tenon and mortise joint; 5: noisiness; 6: part of a fish around the gills |
| 大鎌 | おおがま | scythe |
| 鎌足 | かまあし | legs bowed in; sitting with heels spread apart |
| 鎌形 | かまがた | sickle-shaped; falciform |
| 鎌切 | かまきり | praying mantis (esp. the narrow-winged mantis, Tenodera angustipennis) |
| 鎌首 | かまくび | crooked neck (lit. a neck shaped like a sickle) (found in snakes or praying mantises); gooseneck |
| 鎌柄 | かまつか | 1: sickle handle; 2: goby minnow (Pseudogobio esocinus); 3: Oriental photinia (species of shrub, Photinia villosa); 4: Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis); 5: Joseph's-coat (species of amaranth, Amaranthus tricolor) |
| 鎌継 | かまつぎ | gooseneck tenon and mortise joint |
| 鎌髭 | かまひげ | sickle-shaped moustache (often worn by servants in the Edo period) |
| 鎌槍 | かまやり | spear with curved cross-blades |
| 草鎌 | くさがま | grass sickle |
| 大鎌 | だいかま | scythe |
| 鉈鎌 | なたがま | billhook; fascine knife; sickle-shaped tool with a sharp inner edge, halfway between a knife and an axe |
| 鎌入れ | かまいれ | harvesting |
| 鎌継ぎ | かまつぎ | gooseneck tenon and mortise joint |
| 鎌止め | かまどめ | cutting grass and trees is prohibited |
| 鎌鼬 | かまいたち | 1: type Japanese folkloric monster (yokai), thought to be a trio of weasels who appear in a whirlwind to cut their victim; 2: cut caused by whirlwind |
| 鎖鎌 | くさりがま | sickle and chain (weapon) |
| 鎌海豚 | かまいるか | Pacific white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) |
| 鋸鎌 | のこぎりがま | toothed sickle |
| 鎌脚虫 | かまあしむし | proturan (any wingless insect of order Protura) |
| 草刈鎌 | くさかりがま | grass sickle |
| 二丁鎌 | にちょうがま | two sickles used in Okinawan Kobudo |
| いざ鎌倉 | いざかまくら | case that something major happens; event of an emergency; when it comes to the crunch |
| 鎌倉彫り | かまくらぼり | carvings of the Kamakura style |
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