Fakir

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  • noun. A Muslim religious mendicant.
  • noun. A Hindu ascetic or religious mendicant, especially one who performs feats of magic or endurance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A misspelling of faker.
  • noun. A Mohammedan religious mendicant or ascetic “who is in need of mercy, and poor in the sight of God, rather than in need of worldly assistance” (Hughes, Dict. of Islam).
  • noun. A Hindu devotee or ascetic; a yogi.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. an Oriental Muslim or Hindu religious ascetic or begging monk who is regarded as a holy man or a wonder worker.
  • noun. See faker.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A faqir.
  • noun. an ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man
  • Word Usage
    "He could read the fellow thoroughly, and knew him to be what is commonly called a fakir, pure and simple."
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    fakeer  faker  faquir