to hold, to carry something / to have, to possess / to hold up, to maintain

holding, possession / wear, durability

continuative of 持つ

(business) a company

(chiefly women's speech) first person singular pronoun: I, me

father / (by extension, figuratively) a father figure (male initiator or founder of something) / (Christianity) God, the Holy Father

(archaic) one's own father

(childish) one's own father: daddy / (by later extension) a husband, master of the house

(informal, possibly dialect) one's own father / (by later extension) the head or master of an establishment such as a teahouse, boathouse, etc.

father / father figure / uncle / old man, elderly man