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Synonyms for fakir

Grammar : Noun
Spell : fuh-keer, fey-ker
Phonetic Transcription : fəˈkɪər, ˈfeɪ kər

Définition of fakir

Origin :
  • c.1600, from Arabic faqir "a poor man," from faqura "he was poor." Term for Muslim holy man who lived by begging, misapplied in 19c. English (possibly under influence of faker) to Hindu ascetics. Arabic plural form fuqara may have led to variant early English forms such as fuckiere (1630s).
  • As in yogi : noun ascetic
Example sentences :
  • The fakir was in the bag into which he had been put, cold and inanimate.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 » by Various
  • There were not wanting those in the profession who openly denounced him as a "fakir."
  • Extract from : « An American Suffragette » by Isaac N. Stevens
  • I began to think that the fakir could talk forever and ever faster.
  • Extract from : « The Gypsies » by Charles G. Leland
  • If you think, and think rightly, the fakir does not get you.
  • Extract from : « Dollars and Sense » by Col. Wm. C. Hunter
  • He is suffering so hideously, and so determinedly, like a fakir.
  • Extract from : « Jane Journeys On » by Ruth Comfort Mitchell
  • It was a foregone conclusion that they would consider him a fakir and a crook.
  • Extract from : « The Man from the Bitter Roots » by Caroline Lockhart
  • "Yes, but Lemoine was a fakir of the first water;" said Andrews.
  • Extract from : « The Silent Bullet » by Arthur B. Reeve
  • Unfortunately the fakir did not improve the longer he stayed with us.
  • Extract from : « India and the Indians » by Edward F. Elwin
  • So the fakir hobbled away, and stood in the market-place to sell the cloth.
  • Extract from : « The Olive Fairy Book » by Various
  • A fakir because you misrepresent, and a fool because you do not begin to understand the people.
  • Extract from : « Frenzied Finance » by Thomas W. Lawson

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