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==English==
[[Image:Daruma.jpg|thumb|250px|A '''daruma''' doll.]]

===Etymology===
{{root|en|sa|धृ}}
Borrowed from {{bor|en|ja|達磨|tr=daruma}}, from {{der|en|sa|धर्म|tr=dhárma|t=law; morality; code}}, used as a {{l|en|clipping}} of {{m|ja|菩提達磨|tr=Bodaidaruma||Bodhidharma}}. {{doublet|en|Dharma}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{wp|daruma doll}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈdɑːɹʊmə/}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# A [[hollow]], [[round]], [[Japanese]] [[traditional]] [[doll]] modeled after {{w|Bodhidharma}}, the [[founder]] of the [[Zen]] [[sect]] of [[Buddhism]].
#: {{syn|en|Dharma doll}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=February 19, 1988|author=Janice Perrone|title=A Gloom of Their Own|work=Chicago Reader|url=https://securesite.chireader.com/cgi-bin/Archive/abridged2.bat?path=1988/880219/REHAB1
|passage=Like a '''daruma''' doll, you knock it over and it rights itself.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=A Brief History of Japanese Civilization
|page=255
|author=Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, Suzanne Gay
|year=2012
|passage=This combination of piety and fun also accounts for the continued popularity of roly-poly '''darumas''', popular doll-like figures named after Bodhidharma.}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|Japanese traditional doll modeled after Bodhidharma}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|達摩|tr=dámó}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|達磨|tr=だるま, daruma}}, {{t+|ja|だるま|tr=daruma}}
* Korean: {{t|ko|다루마}}, {{t|ko|달마(達摩)}}
* Marathi: {{t|mr|दारुमा|m}}
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===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=aadmru|Madura|damaru|maraud}}

{{topics|en|Buddhism|Toys}}