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Definition: Fakir |
FakirNoun1. A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fakir" was first used: 1609. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | A false reporter. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of an Indian fakir, denotes uncommon activity and phenomenal changes in your life. Such dreams may sometimes be of gloomy import. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonyms: FakirSynonyms: fakeer (n), faqir (n), faquir (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clergy | Mullah, muezzin, ayatollah; ulema, imaum, imam, sheik; sufi; kahin, kassis; mufti, hadji, dervish; fakir, faquir; brahmin, guru, kaziaskier, poonghie, sanyasi; druid, bonze, santon, abdal, Lama, talapoin, caloyer. |
Poverty | Poor man, pauper, mendicant, mumper, beggar, starveling; pauvre diable; fakir, schnorrer; homeless person. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fakir |
| Etymologies containing "fakir": Faker. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fakir" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (dervish, fakir, poor man), French (fakir), German (fakir), Indonesian (destitute, indigent, poor), Serbo-Croatian (fakir, faquir), Swedish (fakir, faquir), Turkish (destitute, distressed, fakir, impecunious, indigent, necessitous, needy, pauper, penniless, penurious, poor, poor person, ropy, small). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Aysecik - Fakir Prenses (1963) El Millionaire el fakir (1959) Fakir kizin kismeti (1956) Yankee Fakir (1947) | |
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Human Rights | India | On March 13, a Mumbai district court ordered an inquiry into alleged torture of prisoner Yunus Fakir Mohammad Shaikh, who was detained by police at the Dongri police station. (references) |
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| "Fakir" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fakir" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fakir | 71 |
fakir musafar | 10 |
fakir penis saddhu stretching | 3 |
fakir lalon | 3 |
fakir fire | 2 |
fakir mehmood | 2 |
fakir nail | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fakir"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fakir (dervish, poor man). (various references) | |
Arabic | فقير (destitute, indigent, low-income, moneyless, necessitous, needy, ownerless, pauper, penurious, poor, poor mouth, poverty stricken), ناسك (anchorite, hermit, monk), درويش. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | факир (faquir, whiz). (various references) | |
Finnish | fakiiri. (various references) | |
French | fakir. (various references) | |
German | fakir. (various references) | |
Greek | φακίρησ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | פקיר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fakír (faquir). (various references) | |
Indonesian | darwis (dervish). (various references) | |
Italian | fachiro. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | akirfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | falsificador (counterfeit, forger, imitator, pirate). (various references) | |
Romanian | fachir. (various references) | |
Russian | факир (faquir). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | fakir (faquir). (various references) | |
Spanish | faquir. (various references) | |
Swedish | fakir (faquir). (various references) | |
Turkish | fakir (destitute, distressed, impecunious, indigent, necessitous, needy, pauper, penniless, penurious, poor, poor person, ropy, small), sahtekâr (counterfeiter, crook, crooked, dishonest, double-tongued, fabricator, fake, faker, forger, fraud, fraudulent, impostor, make believe, phoney, phony, sham, shammer), numaracı (affected, affecting, fake, faker, poser, poseur, shammer, simulator, tricksy), hint fakiri, dolandırıcı (adventurer, bilker, carpet bagger, cheat, cheater, chiseler, chiseller, confidence man, confidence trickster, crook, crooked, deceitful, double-dealer, faker, fiddler, fraud, fraudulent, grifter, gyp, hustler, impostor, knave, lurcher, rogue, sham, shark, sharp, spieler, swindler, Twicer), derviş (dervish, marabout, santon). (various references) | |
Ukranian | факір. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | Fakia (faquir), thầy tu khổ hạnh (faquir). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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| Arabic | 500-Modern | faqir. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fakir": fakirs. (additional references) | |
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"Fakir" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afaik, Afcor, akir, faci, facio, facour, fadir, fafir, faif, Faik, fairt, Fajko, faka, Fakhr, Fakhri, Fakhro, Fakhru, fakid, fakie, fakiry, fakr, faky, Falkkirk, faqir, farir, favi, Fekih, Fikri, foker, frakir, fukkit, lakir, pakir, Sakir, Takfir, vakif. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: kafir. | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-k-r" | |
-1 letter: fair, fiar, kaif, raki. | |
-2 letters: air, arf, ark, far, fir, irk, kaf, kif, kir, ria, rif. | |
-3 letters: ai, ar, fa, if, ka. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-k-r" | |
+1 letter: fakirs, kaffir, kafirs. | |
+2 letters: finmark, flakier, kaffirs, ratfink. | |
+3 letters: backfire, fakeries, finmarks, finnmark, fireback, franking, franklin, freakier, freakily, freaking, freakish, ratfinks, wakerife. | |
+4 letters: backfired, backfires, drawknife, dwarflike, fairylike, filmmaker, finnmarks, firebacks, firebreak, firedrake, forsaking, franklins, freakiest, friedcake, fruitcake, jackfruit, kingcraft, scarfskin, tackifier. | |
+5 letters: backfiring, fatherlike, filmmakers, firebreaks, firedrakes, flackeries, freakiness, freakishly, friedcakes, fruitcakes, jackfruits, kingcrafts, scarfskins, tackifiers, trafficked, trafficker. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 6B 69 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- -.- .. .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01101011 01101001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a k i r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 006B 0069 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4067777584 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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