らかん

See also: らがん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of らかん – see the following entry.

【羅漢】 [noun] (Buddhism, colloquial) Short for 阿羅漢 (arakan): an arhat, Buddhist saint [noun] (theater, colloquial) Short for 羅漢台 (rakandai): a low seat behind the stage, the audience member sitting there vaguely resembling an arhat [noun] Misspelling of 罹患 (rikan): contracting an illness

(This term, らかん, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)