Archaic familiar term for 'mother', using the old possessive じゃ (modern の). Not used in contemporary Japanese; encountered only in historical or literary texts.
昔話に「母じゃ人、どこへ行く」という台詞が出てくる。
In old tales, the line 'Mother, where are you going?' appears.
Common polite term for one's own or someone else's mother. 母じゃ人 is archaic and familiar, not polite.
Archaic spelling using じゃ for the possessive; the kanji 母者人 is an ateji variant.
Ateji (phonetic) spelling for the same word; less common than 母じゃ人.
The older spelling 母者人 combines 母 with 者人, an honorific expression for a person, and means “mother” or “lady mother.”