fakir
English
Alternative forms
- faquir (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr, “poor man”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fəˈkiɹ/, /fəˈkɪəɹ/, /fɑˈkiɹ/, /ˈfeɪkəɹ/
- Homophone: faker
- Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Noun
fakir (plural fakirs)
- (Islam) A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms.
- (Hindu, 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 4293071:
- 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.
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- (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.
- 1905, Eclectic Magazine, Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
Translations
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Anagrams
- Kafir, farik, kafir
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfaː.ki(ː)r/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: fa‧kir
Noun
fakir m (plural fakirs, diminutive fakirtje n)
- (Islam, Hinduism) fakir
French
Etymology
From Arabic فَقِير (faqīr, “poor man”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa.kiʁ/
Audio (file)
Noun
fakir m (plural fakirs)
- fakir (all meanings)
Further reading
- “fakir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay fakir, from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr, “poor”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfakɪr/
- Rhymes: -kɪr, -ɪr, -r
- Hyphenation: fa‧kir
Noun
fakir (plural fakir-fakir, first-person possessive fakirku, second-person possessive fakirmu, third-person possessive fakirnya)
- poor, destitute
- mendicant
- fakir, faqir.
Alternative forms
- faqir
- pakir
- pekir
Derived terms
- kefakiran
- fakir miskin
References
- Erwina Burhanuddin; Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan; R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, OCLC 29420936
Further reading
- “fakir” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfa.kir/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -akir
- Syllabification: fa‧kir
Noun
fakir m pers
- (Islam) fakir (faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms)
- Synonym: derwisz
- (Hinduism) fakir (ascetic mendicant)
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | fakir | fakirzy/fakirowie |
genitive | fakira | fakirów |
dative | fakirowi | fakirom |
accusative | fakira | fakirów |
instrumental | fakirem | fakirami |
locative | fakirze | fakirach |
vocative | fakirze | fakirzy/fakirowie |
Derived terms
- fakirowy
- fakirek
Further reading
- fakir in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- fakir in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Arabic فَقِير (faqīr, “poor man”), probably via Ottoman Turkish فقیر (fakir). Compare fukàra, fukàrluk.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fǎkiːr/
- Hyphenation: fa‧kir
Noun
fàkīr m (Cyrillic spelling фа̀кӣр)
- faqir
- (Hindu) fakir (an ascetic mendicant)
- (regional) a destitute man
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | fàkīr | fakiri |
genitive | fakíra | fakira |
dative | fakiru | fakirima |
accusative | fakira | fakire |
vocative | fakiru | fakiri |
locative | fakiru | fakirima |
instrumental | fakirom | fakirima |
Derived terms
- fakírak
References
- “fakir” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 276
Turkish
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɑcir/
- Hyphenation: fa‧kir
Noun
fakir (definite accusative fakiri, plural fakirler)
- (Hindu) fakir (an ascetic mendicant)
Declension
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Nominative | fakir | fakirler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | fakiri | fakirleri | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | fakire | fakirlere | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | fakirde | fakirlerde | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | fakirden | fakirlerden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | fakirin | fakirlerin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Adjective
fakir
- poor, pauper
- Paralarımla yardım edebileceğim fakir insanları düşün.
- Think of the poor people I could help with all my money.
Synonyms
- fukara
- yoksul
- züğürt
Antonyms
- zengin
- varlıklı
- varsıl
Derived terms
- fakr ü zaruret
Related terms
- fukara
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “fakir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Anagrams
- kafir