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