だるま – vocab dash

だるま

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Meanings

Noun

1. daruma; tumbling doll; round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted (Usually kana)

2. Bodhidharma (Usually kana)

3. prostitute (Usually kana)

Other spellings

達磨だるま

Other readings

ダルマ

Kanji in other spellings

達accomplished 磨polish

Pitch accent

だるま

Used in vocabulary

火ひ達磨だるま

ball of flames; mass of flames; body covered with flames

Noun

血ちだるま

being covered in blood

Noun

達磨だるま忌き

ceremony held in honor (honour) of Bodhidharma (October 5)

Noun

達磨だるま船せん

barge; lighter

Noun

達磨だるま宗しゅう

Zen (Buddhism); confusing style of middle-age Japanese poetry

Noun

達磨だるま歌うた

confusing song or poem (esp. used derogatorily to describe a style of middle-age Japanese poetry popularized by Fujiwara no Teika)

Noun

菩ぼ提だい達磨だるま

Bodhidharma

Noun

だるまざめ

cookie-cutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis); cigar shark

Noun

だるま落おとし

daruma otoshi; toy consisting of vertically stacked wooden blocks that must be knocked away without letting the daruma doll on top fall to the ground

Noun

だるまがえる

Daruma pond frog (Pelophylax porosus)

Noun

筋きん肉にくダルマ

extremely muscular person; muscle-bound person

Noun