お昼

Compound of お (o-, honorific prefix) +‎ 昼 (hiru, “daytime; midday, noon”).

• (Tokyo) おひる [òhíꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [o̞çiɾɯ̟]

お昼(ひる) • (ohiru) 

1. daytime, the daylight hours
2. midday, noon
3. (by extension) the midday meal, lunch

Most commonly written using the hiragana お for the prefix o-, instead of the kanji 御.

• 御昼(おひる)こし (ohiru koshi): a 女房詞(にょうぼうことば) (nyōbō kotoba): women's word for “lunch”
• 御昼(おひる)なる (ohiru naru): a 女房詞(にょうぼうことば) (nyōbō kotoba): women's word for “to get up, to wake up”