jmdict 1416280 Active (id#2329395)
達磨 [spec2,news2,nf41]
【 だるま [spec2,news2,nf41] ； ダルマ (nokanji) 】
  1. [n] [uk]
    • daruma
    • tumbling doll
    • [expl] 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
    Cross references:
    • ⇐ see: 2836605 だるま落とし【だるまおとし】 1. 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
  2. [n] [uk]
    • Bodhidharma
    Cross references:
    • ⇐ see: 2215110 菩提達磨【ぼだいだるま】 1. Bodhidharma
  3. [n] [uk]
    • prostitute
History:
    • A 2025-01-03 19:25:44 Stephen Kraus (id#2329395)
    • Comments
      Probably dated.
    • Refs
      Daijisen gives 「―茶屋」 as an example of our third sense.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬────╮
│ 達磨茶屋　 │ 24 │
│ だるま茶屋 │ 69 │
│ ダルマ茶屋 │  0 │
╰─ーーーーー─┴────╯
    • Diff
      @@ -33,0 +34 @@
+<misc>&uk;</misc>
    • A 2013-10-13 22:15:52 Jim Breen
    • A* 2013-10-13 20:30:22 midori
    • Comments
      Typo.
    • Diff
      @@ -25,1 +25,1 @@
-<gloss g_type="expl">round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with an blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">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</gloss>
    • A 2013-08-31 01:47:15 Rene Malenfant
    • A* 2013-08-31 01:46:55 Jim Breen
    • Refs
      Unidic/ngrams, Google images.
    • Diff
      @@ -15,0 +15,4 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ダルマ</reb>
+<re_nokanji/>
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