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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who has attained enlightenment.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The highest rank of Buddhist saintship; specifically, one of the original five hundred disciples of Gautama Buddha. Also Arahat, Rahat, and Arhan, Rahan.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a Buddhist who has attained nirvana.

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  • noun Buddhism one who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint
  • noun Jainism one of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed; arhanta

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a Buddhist who has attained nirvana

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Sanskrit, from present participle of arhati, he deserves.]

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From Sanskrit अर्हत् (árhat, "enlightened one, holy one"), originally "worthy of worship".

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