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fakir

Muslim religious mendicant; Hindu ascetic; beggar; one who performs feats of magic

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faker – one who produces counterfeits; swindler; fraud

fa·kir

(fə-kîr′, fä-, fă-)

1. A Muslim religious mendicant.

2. A Hindu ascetic or religious mendicant, especially one who performs feats of magic or endurance.

[From Arabic faqīr, poor, from faqura, to be poor, be needy; see pqr in Semitic roots.]

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fakir

(fəˈkɪə; ˈfeɪkə) or

faqir

;

fakeer

(fəˈkɪə)

1. (Islam) a Muslim ascetic who rejects worldly possessions

2. (Hinduism) a Hindu ascetic mendicant or holy man

[C17: from Arabic faqīr poor]

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fa•kir

(fəˈkɪər, ˈfeɪ kər)

also fa•keer′,

1. a Muslim or Hindu religious ascetic or mendicant monk commonly considered a wonder-worker.

2. a member of any Islamic religious order.

[1600–10; < Arabic faqīr poor]

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Noun

fakir - a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man

fakeer, faqir, faquir

Moslem, Muslim - a believer in or follower of Islam

dervish - an ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements

holy man, holy person, saint, angel - person of exceptional holiness

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fakír

Fakir

fakir

fakír

fachiro

fakir

fakir

[ˈfɑːkɪəʳ] N → faquir m

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fakir

n → Fakir m

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Magic is a great thing and scarcely any one knows anything about it except a few people in old books--and Mary a little, because she was born in India where there are fakirs. I believe Dickon knows some Magic, but perhaps he doesn't know he knows it.

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Mosques, minarets, temples, fakirs, pagodas, tigers, snakes, elephants!

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I was prepared, I think, for shrouded priests or naked fakirs. But this seemed to say that the devilry was over all the earth.

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Then there were holy men, ash-smeared fakirs by their brick shrines under the trees at the riverside, with whom he was quite familiar - greeting them as they returned from begging-tours, and, when no one was by, eating from the same dish.