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For pronunciation and definitions of 檀那 – see the following entry. |
【旦那】 |
- [noun] (Buddhism) generosity as one of the Buddhist perfections (पारमिता (pāramitā))
- [noun] (Buddhism) a donation of money, goods, or service to monks or a temple
- [noun] (Buddhism) a person who makes such a donation: a patron
- [noun] (archaic) in the Japanese medieval period, overnight visitors to a shrine or temple
- [noun] (archaic) by extension, a gentleman
- [noun] broadly, a patron, a husband, a master:
- [noun] (honorific) a master of servants, a boss of employees, the master of the house
- [noun] (honorific) by extension, an honorific for one's own or someone else's husband
- [noun] (honorific) also by extension, used by shopkeepers to address a male customer or by an artisan to refer to one's own school or lineage
- [noun] (honorific) a term used by a concubine, mistress, or geisha to refer to one's own patron: a sugar daddy
- [noun] (honorific) a term used by female servants to refer to the mistress of the house
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(This term, 檀那, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) |