α. 1800s Arihat, 1800s– Arahat.
β. 1900s– Arahant.
Also with lower-case initial.Arahatn.
/ˈarəhat/, U.S. /ˈɑrəˌhæt/ Buddhism.
Esp. in Theravada Buddhism: a being who, having achieved enlightenment, will attain nirvana at death and will not be reborn. Cf. Arhat n. 2.In Mahayana Buddhism the related term Arhat n. is typically used.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun] > non-Christian > Buddhist
Arahat1801
Bodhisattva1801
Arhat1837
Lohan1878
1801 Asiatick Researches 7 414 The Arihats are as numerous as the preceding ones.
1877 T. W. R. Davids Buddhism 84 The Buddhist Arahats or saints.
1941 A. C. Bouquet Compar. Relig. vii. 126 Gotama..would only say that the Arahant or perfected Buddhist was in a state which could not be described either as existence or as non-existence.
2021 Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka) (Nexis) 2 May At present, the smoothed rock beds where the Arahat slept can be observed on the granite surfaces of the caves.
Derivatives
ˈArahatship n. the state or condition of being an Arahat; cf. Arhatship n. [After Pali arahatta. The first element of the earlier variant rahatship in quot. 1850 reflects Sinhala orthography.]
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society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun] > non-Christian > Buddhist > condition of
Arhatship1856
Arahatship1877
Bodhisattvahood1881
Bodhisattvaship1884
1850 R. S. Hardy Eastern Monachism xxii. 282 There are some persons who obtain the rahatship instantaneously.]
1877 T. W. R. Davids Buddhism v. 125 It is stated that Suddhodana, Gautama's father, reached Arahatship on his deathbed.
1926 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 96/2 The leaders of the Great Vehicle urged their followers to seek to attain, not so much to Arahatship, which would involve only their own salvation, but to Bodhisatship.
2017 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. Sri Lanka 62 53 The Aṅguttara Nikāya gives examples of 19 householders who attained arahatship.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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