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A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Islam, lifestyle, religion
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Hinduism
Qualifier: more loosely
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Antonyms: none provided
Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory
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a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fakeer, faqir, faquir
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Muslim, Moslem, saint, holy man, holy person, angel
Narrower terms: dervish
Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr, “poor man”).
Across languages
Translations
51 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
فَقِير
(faqīr)
— ascetic mendicant
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Armenian:
ֆակիր
(fakir)
— ascetic mendicant
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Azerbaijani:
fakir
— ascetic mendicant
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Azerbaijani:
fəqir
— ascetic mendicant
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Bengali:
ফকির
(phokir)
— ascetic mendicant
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Bengali:
দরবেশ
(dorbeś)
— ascetic mendicant
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Bulgarian:
факи́р
(fakír)
— ascetic mendicant
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Catalan:
faquir
— ascetic mendicant
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Chinese Mandarin:
法基爾 /法基尔
(fǎjī'ěr)
— ascetic mendicant
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Chinese Mandarin:
苦行僧
(kǔxíngsēng)
— ascetic mendicant
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Czech:
fakír
— ascetic mendicant
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Danish:
fakir
— ascetic mendicant
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Dutch:
fakir
— ascetic mendicant
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Esperanto:
fakiro
— ascetic mendicant
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Estonian:
fakiir
— ascetic mendicant
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Finnish:
fakiiri
— ascetic mendicant
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French:
fakir
— ascetic mendicant
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German:
Fakir
— ascetic mendicant
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Greek:
φακίρης
(fakíris)
— ascetic mendicant
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Hindi:
फ़क़ीर
(faqīr)
— ascetic mendicant
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Hindi:
फकीर
(phakīr)
— ascetic mendicant
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Hindi:
फकीरन
(phakīran)
— ascetic mendicant
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Hindi:
फकीरनी
(phakīrnī)
— ascetic mendicant
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Hungarian:
fakír
— ascetic mendicant
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Indonesian:
fakir
— ascetic mendicant
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Italian:
fachiro
— ascetic mendicant
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Japanese:
苦行僧
(kugyōsō)
— ascetic mendicant
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Japanese:
托鉢僧
(takuhatsusō)
— ascetic mendicant
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Kazakh:
пақыр
(paqyr)
— ascetic mendicant
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Kyrgyz:
факир
(fakir)
— ascetic mendicant
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Macedonian:
фа́кир
(fákir)
— ascetic mendicant
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Malay:
fakir
— ascetic mendicant
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Marathi:
फकीर
(phakīr)
— ascetic mendicant
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Norwegian:
fakir
— ascetic mendicant
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Pashto:
فقير
(faqír)
— ascetic mendicant
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Pashto:
دروېش
(darweš)
— ascetic mendicant
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Persian:
فقیر
(faqir)
— ascetic mendicant
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Persian:
درویش
(darviš)
— ascetic mendicant
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Polish:
fakir
— ascetic mendicant
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Portuguese:
faquir
— ascetic mendicant
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Russian:
факи́р
(fakír)
— ascetic mendicant
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Spanish:
fakir
— ascetic mendicant
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Swedish:
fakir
— ascetic mendicant
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Tajik:
фақир
(faqir)
— ascetic mendicant
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Tajik:
дарвеш
(darveš)
— ascetic mendicant
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Tamil:
பக்கிரி
(pakkiri)
— ascetic mendicant
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Tatar:
фәкыйрь
(fäqir)
— ascetic mendicant
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Turkish:
fakir
— ascetic mendicant
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Urdu:
فقیر
(faqīr)
— ascetic mendicant
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Uyghur:
پېقىر
(pëqir)
— ascetic mendicant
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Uzbek:
faqir
— ascetic mendicant
