fakir

• faquir (obsolete)
• faqir, faquir
• faqueer (dated)

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

• IPA^(key): /fəˈkiɹ/, /fəˈkɪəɹ/, /fɑˈkiɹ/, /ˈfeɪkəɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
• Homophone: faker
• Hyphenation: fa‧kir

fakir (plural fakirs)

1. (Islam) A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms.
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.

• Kafir, farik, kafir

Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr).

• IPA^(key): [faˈkiɐ̯ˀ]

fakir c (singular definite fakiren, plural indefinite fakirer)

1. (Islam, Hinduism) fakir

• “fakir” in Den Danske Ordbog

Ultimately derived from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaː.kir/, /ˈfaː.kiːr/

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• Hyphenation: fa‧kir

fakir m (plural fakirs, diminutive fakirtje n)

1. (Islam, Hinduism) fakir

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

• IPA^(key): /fa.kiʁ/

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fakir m (plural fakirs)

1. (Islam, Hinduism) fakir

• “fakir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.kɪr/
• Rhymes: -kɪr, -ɪr, -r
• Hyphenation: fa‧kir

fakir (plural fakir-fakir)

1. poor, destitute
2. mendicant
3. fakir, faqir

• faqir
• pakir
• pekir

• “fakir” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.kir/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -akir
• Syllabification: fa‧kir

fakir m pers

1. (Islam) fakir (faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms)

   Synonym: derwisz

2. (Hinduism) fakir (ascetic mendicant)

• fakir in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fakir in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

• IPA^(key): /fǎkiːr/
• Hyphenation: fà‧kīr

fàkīr m anim (Cyrillic spelling фа̀кӣр)

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

• fakírak

• “fakir”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 276

fakir c

1. (Islam, Hinduism) fakir

• spikmatta (“bed of nails”)

• fakir in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fakir in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fakir in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• fakır (dialectal)

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”).

• IPA^(key): /fɑcir/

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• Hyphenation: fa‧kir

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.

• fakr
• fukara

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fakir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

• “fakir”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “fakir”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı

• kafir