Definitions for Arhat

Arhat Ar·hat

Spelling: [ahr-huh t]
IPA: /ˈɑr hət/

Arhat is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in Arhat (aahrt).

Definitions for Arhat

noun

  1. a Buddhist who has attained Nirvana through rigorous discipline and ascetic practices. Compare Bodhisattva.

Origin of Arhat

1865-70; Sanskrit: meriting respect, derivative of arhati (he) merits

Examples for Arhat

Be it noted, however, that such canonization was never accorded to an Arhat till after his departure from the world.

"There is no god superior to the Arhat," says the Kalpa-sūtra (Stevenson, p. 10).

The aim of the religious life is to become a Bodhisattva, not to become an Arhat.

With the death of an Arhat comes the state known as an-updi-sesa-nibbnam in which no skandhas remain.

But in the night hours spirits appear to us and tell us not to kill ourselves, for an Arhat will come from the East to deliver us.

He was the last disciple whom the Buddha converted, and he straightway became an Arhat.

Arhat, in short, was from the first a name for the higher grade of saint-like Bhikshu.

The life of an Arhat which includes the strictest morality is commended on its own account as the best and happiest existence.

They answered in the affirmative, saying that he was an Arhat.

In many respects the virtues of the Bodhisattva are those of the Arhat.

Word Value for Arhat
Scrable

8

Words with friends

7

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