daruma

Borrowed from Japanese 達磨 (daruma), from Sanskrit धर्म (dharma, “law; morality; code”), used as a clipping of 菩提達磨 (Bodaidaruma, “Bodhidharma”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːɹʊmə/

daruma (plural darumas)

1. A hollow, round, Japanese traditional doll modeled after Bodhidharma, the founder of the Zen sect of Buddhism.
   • 1988 February 19, Janice Perrone, “A Gloom of Their Own”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     Like a daruma doll, you knock it over and it rights itself.

   • 2012, A Brief History of Japanese Civilization, page 255:

     This combination of piety and fun also accounts for the continued popularity of roly-poly darumas, popular doll-like figures named after Bodhidharma.

   Synonym: Dharma doll

• Madura, maraud