also: ぱらみつ
noun
pāramitā; perfection; Buddhist perfection
Only with reading はらみつ
Buddhist term for the perfections or virtues cultivated on the path to enlightenment. Often appears in compounds like 六波羅蜜 (six pāramitās).
See also: 波羅蜜多
六波羅蜜は大乗仏教の重要な教えです。
The six pāramitās are an important teaching in Mahayana Buddhism.
noun
jackfruit
Refers to the tropical fruit Artocarpus heterophyllus. Usually written in katakana as パラミツ.
パラミツは東南アジアでよく食べられている果物です。
Jackfruit is a fruit commonly eaten in Southeast Asia.
Katakana spelling for the fruit; this sense is usually written in kana.
Hiragana variant for the fruit; less common than katakana but still used.
Sense 1: From Sanskrit pāramitā via Chinese. Sense 2: From Portuguese jaca or Malayalam chakka, possibly via Southeast Asian languages; the reading パラミツ may reflect an older borrowing route.