noun
Everyday, slightly childish or euphemistic word for intestinal gas. More polite than 屁 (へ).
おならが出そう。
I feel like I'm going to fart.
赤ちゃんがおならをした。
The baby passed gas.
Standard hiragana spelling; no kanji form exists.
Katakana variant, often used in informal or emphatic contexts.
The origin is uncertain; it may be a sound-symbolic word related to the sound of passing gas, with the polite prefix お added.