Word.ws English Dictionary

arahant

arahant noun: eminently high achiever who has attained enlightenment.

Noun

arahant (plural arahants)

  1. (Theravada Buddhism) Eminently high achiever who has attained enlightenment.

Forms of arahant

pluralarahants

Origin of arahant

Borrowed from Pali arahant (“one who is worthy”). Doublet of arhat and arihant.

Words formed from arahant

Questions about arahant

What does arahant mean?
Arahant means eminently high achiever who has attained enlightenment.
What part of speech is arahant?
Arahant is a noun.
What is the plural of arahant?
The plural of arahant is arahants.

Words near arahant in the dictionary

  1. araguaneys
  2. araguato
  3. araguatos
  4. Aragvi
  5. Aragón
  6. arahant
  7. arahanthood
  8. arahants
  9. arahantship
  10. arahat
  11. arahats

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: arahant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “arahant.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/arahant. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.