Please put the vegetables in the pot and simmer them.
transgender man (FTM); butch lesbian; female transvestite
Slang, often derogatory; used in LGBTQ+ and subcultural contexts. Usually written in kana.
He lives as a transgender man.
I heard that person is a butch lesbian.
Archaic; originally used as a name for female servants in Edo-period literature.
In Edo-period novels, a maidservant called おなべ often appears.
Archaic; rare historical usage referring to night work.
There are examples in old documents where おなべ is used to mean night work.
Polite prefix お + 鍋; standard kanji spelling for the 'pot/pan' sense.
Formal kanji spelling using 御; rarely used in modern writing.
Katakana spelling sometimes used for the slang sense, especially in subcultural contexts.
Sense 1 is the polite form of 鍋 (pot/pan). Sense 2 is slang derived from the pot/pan meaning, possibly through analogy with お釜 (pot → gay man). Senses 3 and 4 are archaic uses whose exact derivations are uncertain.