daruma
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Japanese 達磨 (daruma), from Sanskrit धर्म (dhárma, “law; morality; code”), used as a clipping of 菩提達磨 (Bodaidaruma, “Bodhidharma”). Doublet of Dharma.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
daruma (plural darumas)
- A hollow, round, Japanese traditional doll modeled after Bodhidharma, the founder of the Zen sect of Buddhism.
- Synonym: Dharma doll
- 1988 February 19, Janice Perrone, “A Gloom of Their Own”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- Like a daruma doll, you knock it over and it rights itself.
- 2012, Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, Suzanne Gay, A Brief History of Japanese Civilization, page 255:
- This combination of piety and fun also accounts for the continued popularity of roly-poly darumas, popular doll-like figures named after Bodhidharma.
Translations edit
Japanese traditional doll modeled after Bodhidharma