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A fakir

Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr, “poor man”).

fakir (plural fakirs)

  1. (Islam) A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.
  2. (Hinduism, more loosely) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      The preposterous altruism too! […] Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
  3. (derogatory) Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature.
    • 1905, Eclectic Magazine, Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:
      He denounces no one until he has all the damaging facts in hand, very frequently backed up with affidavits. He 'Lawsonized' certain stock jobbers and financial fakirs of London before the Boston advertising man was heard of.
    • 1927, The Rotarian, page 30:
      "But a stranger who had come up to the group just at this point, when they were pronouncing the soup delicious, laughed aloud. "'What a set of fools you all are!' he cried. 'This tramp is just a fakir. That stone had nothing to do with the soup."
    • 1994, Michael Barry Miller, Shanghai on the Métro: Spies, Intrigue, and the French Between the Wars, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 252:
      He was, as the undercover agent concluded, a fabulous raconteur or, as one other person summed him up, "a monumental fakir and liar."
    • 2009, Gelett Burgess, The Heart Line: A Drama of San Francisco, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 175:
      From what I hear of him he's a fakir, and I won't encourage him in his attempts to get into society at my expense.

ascetic mendicant

Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr).

fakir c (singular definite fakiren, plural indefinite fakirer)

  1. (Islam, Hinduism) fakir

Ultimately derived from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr).

fakir m (plural fakirs, diminutive fakirtje n)

  1. (Islam, Hinduism) fakir

Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr, “poor man”).

fakir m (plural fakirs)

  1. (Islam, Hinduism) fakir

From Malay fakir, from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr, “poor”).[1]

fakir (plural **fakir-fakir)

  1. poor, destitute
  2. mendicant
  3. fakir, faqir
  1. ^ Erwina Burhanuddin; Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan; R.B. Chrismanto (1993), Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎[1], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC

Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr).

fakir m pers

  1. (Islam) fakir (faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms)
    Synonym: derwisz
  2. (Hinduism) fakir (ascetic mendicant)

Derived from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr, “poor man”), probably borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فقیر (“fakir”). Compare fukàra, fukàrluk.

fàkīr m anim (Cyrillic spelling фа̀кӣр)

  1. faqir
  2. (Hinduism) fakir (an ascetic mendicant)
  3. (regional) a destitute man

fakir på spikmatta [fakir on a bed of nails]

fakir c

  1. (Islam, Hinduism) fakir

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish فقیر (fakir), from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr).

Cognate with Azerbaijani fağır (“poor”), Bashkir бахыр (baxır, “poor, miserable”), Kazakh пақыр (paqyr, “poor, miserable”), Kyrgyz бакыр (bakır, “poor, miserable”), Turkmen pahyr (“poor thing”).

fakir (definite accusative fakiri, plural fakirler)

  1. (Hinduism) fakir (an ascetic mendicant)

fakir

  1. poor, pauper
    Synonyms: fukara, yoksul, züğürt
    Antonyms: gani, zengin, varlıklı, varsıl
    Paralarımla yardım edebileceğim fakir insanları düşün.
    Think of the poor people I could help with all my money.