FAKIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fakir mean? 

• FAKIR (noun)
  The noun FAKIR has 1 sense:

1. a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man

  Familiarity information: FAKIR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAKIR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fakeer; fakir; faqir; faquir

Hypernyms ("fakir" is a kind of...):

Moslem; Muslim (a believer in or follower of Islam)

angel; holy man; holy person; saint (person of exceptional holiness)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fakir"):

dervish (an ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements)

 Context examples 

I know he's been a street fakir when he was down.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Can you tell me how the Indian fakir can make himself to die and have been buried, and his grave sealed and corn sowed on it, and the corn reaped and be cut and sown and reaped and cut again, and then men come and take away the unbroken seal and that there lie the Indian fakir, not dead, but that rise up and walk amongst them as before?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)