Fakir

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A Muslim religious mendicant.
  • n. A Hindu ascetic or religious mendicant, especially one who performs feats of magic or endurance.
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  • n. A faqir.
  • n. an ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. an Oriental Muslim or Hindu religious ascetic or begging monk who is regarded as a holy man or a wonder worker.
  • n. See faker.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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).
  • n. A Hindu devotee or ascetic; a yogi.
  • n. A misspelling of faker.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Muslim    angel    holy person    holy man    saint    Moslem   
    Variant
    faquir    fakeer    faker   
    Hyponym
    dervish   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ascetic    dervish   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fortuneteller    hadji    locater    pornographer    farmworker    merry-andrew    faker    amorist    ferromagnetism    conjurer   
     
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