Fakir

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fəˈkiɹ/, /fɑˈkiɹ/, /ˈfeɪkəɹ/
• Homophones: faker
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Origin

From Arabic فقير (faqīr, "poor man").

Full definition of fakir

Noun

1. (Islam) A faqir.
2. (Hindu) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.
• 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 16, 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.

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