daruma

English
A daruma doll.

Etymology

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
  • IPA(key): /ˈdɑːɹʊmə/

Noun

daruma (plural darumas)

  1. 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:
      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.

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