Fakir Definition

fə-kîr, fä-, fă-
fakirs
noun
A member of a Muslim holy sect who lives by begging.
Webster's New World
A Hindu ascetic.
Webster's New World
Any Muslim or Hindu itinerant beggar, often one reputed to perform marvels.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Fakir

Noun

Singular:
fakir
Plural:
fakirs

Origin of Fakir

  • From Arabic faqīr poor from faqura to be poor, be needy pqr in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Arabic فقير (faqīr, “poor man”).

    From Wiktionary

Fakir Sentence Examples

  • January onwards The Fakir of Ipi makes repeated attempts to foment unrest against British colonial rule in India's North-West Frontier Province.

  • Modern primitive cultural leaders included Fakir Musafar, who promoted modern primitivism as an offshoot of the 1970's punk subculture.

  • This Mahommedan soldier-adventurer, who, followed by his son Tippoo, became the most formidable Asiatic rival the British ever encountered in India, was the great-grandson of a fakir or wandering ascetic of Islam, who had found his way from the Punjab to Gulburga in the Deccan, and the second son of a naik or chief constable at Budikota, near Kolar in Mysore.

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