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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Buddhism One who has attained enlightenment.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

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

Wiktionary

  1. n. Buddhism one who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint
  2. n. 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.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a Buddhist who has attained nirvana.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a Buddhist who has attained nirvana

Etymologies

  1. From Sanskrit अर्हत् (árhat, "enlightened one, holy one"), originally "worthy of worship". (Wiktionary)
  2. Sanskrit, from present participle of arhati, he deserves. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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