Sarana

Hinge, flexible joint (in Finnish), a device that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other. I originally chose the name sarana in 1996 because it looked and sounded nice.

Circumstance upon which subsequent events depend; "his absence is the hinge of our plan" (from English)

In the Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary (1952 Reprint)/(literary references), the meaning of "sarana" is given as, "shelter, house, refuge, protection, especially the three refuges - the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha." The three refuges are known as the "Ti-Sarana". Sarana is a much used word, and the "Ti-Saranas" are an often conceived concept among Buddhists.This is what I learned it to mean in the Autumn 2002

Among the plants the most important one in the diet of ancient Kamchadals was sarana, a lily with dark purple flowers. Its bulbs ground with blueberries and other berries were a good substitution of bread. (Flora on Kamchatka)

Puntius Sarana is an endangered fish living in southern Asia

Sarana is given many Buddhist historical references by this Buddhist dictionary

Bizarre

Brave, hardened, handsome, beard, angry (old meanings from Basque, French, Spanish and Italian)

Deviating from the customary: cranky, curious, eccentric, erratic, freakish, idiosyncratic, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, singular, strange, unnatural, unusual, weird. I have concluded that these English versions of the word come from the word itself, which looks bizarre.

Conceived or done with no reference to reality or common sense: antic, fantastic, fantastical, far-fetched, grotesque.