a remote ancestor / (more narrowly): an ancestor four generations back: a great-great-grandparent, a grandparent of a grandparent / (Chinese history) the founder of a dynasty

a family, a household

to wait for a chance / to serve by one's side

(copula) to be / verbal suffix

to serve by one's side / (copula) to be

to hear, to listen / to obey / to ask a question / to smell, sniff

samurai / wait upon, serve

(historical) a warrior class in medieval and pre-modern Japan; samurai / a servant / a retainer / Short for 侍所 (samurai-dokoro): the Board of Retainers in the Kamakura and Muromachi periods.

a servant / a retainer / a warrior; particularly, a samurai / Synonym of 下侍 (shimosaburai): / Short for 侍所 (saburai-dokoro): a samurai guardhouse in the Heian period

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