Is “Arhat” a Scrabble word?

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ARHAT
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Meaning of Arhat

/ˈɑːhæt/

noun
  1. 1.One who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint.

    1954: Over and against the arhat, retreating from appearances into an entirely transcendental Nirvana, stands the Bodhisattva, for whom Suchness and the world of contingencies are one — Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (Chatto & Windus 1954, p. 32)

  2. 2.One of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed; arhanta.