ALL meanings of arhat
Ar·hat
A a - noun arhat a Buddhist, esp a monk who has achieved enlightenment and at death passes to nirvana 3
- noun arhat one who has attained nirvana and, thus, is no longer subject to the cycle of rebirth 3
- noun arhat (in Buddhism and Jainism) someone who has attained the goal of the religious life. 1
- noun arhat a Buddhist who has attained Nirvana through rigorous discipline and ascetic practices. Compare Bodhisattva. 1
- noun arhat (Buddhism) one who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint. 0
- noun arhat (Jainism) one of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed; arhanta. 0