伽

fairy tale; fairy story; nursery tale

Word usually written using kana alone; Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'; Adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)

empty; hollow; bare; vacant; deserted

Buddhism; Orig. meaning

main hall of a temple (often vast and empty)

nursing; nurse; attending; attendant; entertainer

Abbreviation; Common noun; Buddhism

temple (esp. large one); monastery

Noun, used as a suffix; Buddhism

temple building

attending someone through the night (of a guard, nurse)

sleeping with a man (at his bidding)

overnight vigil before burial

aloes wood (Taxus cuspidata var. nana)

aloes-wood perfume; aloes-wood incense

Polite

attending (upon); keeping another company; being a confidant; serving (a nobleman)

Abbreviation

fairy tale

large temple edifice; large temple

incense variety used in kōdō (orig. from Malacca)

Buddhism

Lankavatara Sutra

Buddhism

yoga

sangha (the Buddhist community)

stalks of butterbur boiled in soy sauce

Buddhism

water offering to Buddha; holy water

fairy-tale book

Buddhism

yoga master

gayageum (12-stringed Korean zither)

pelican

Buddhism

Bhagavan; Bhagwan; Lord

fairy play; pantomime

Buddhism

shelf for offerings (of water, flowers, etc.)

fairyland; never-never land

Buddhism

kalavinka; imaginary bird in paradise that sings sweet notes

Idiomatic expression

person or creature with a beautiful voice

fairy-tale book