Fakir synonyms

fə-kîr', fä-, fă-

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mendicant
A beggar.
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dervish
One that possesses abundant, often frenzied energy:
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ascetic (related)
A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion.
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monk
(Slang) A male who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.
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faqir
(Islam) A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.
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faquir
Obsolete spelling of fakir.
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yogi
Alternative capitalization of yogi
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fakeer
An Eastern religious ascetic or monk.
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holy beggar
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Find another word for fakir. In this page you can discover 9 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for fakir, like: mendicant, dervish, ascetic, monk, faqir, faquir, yogi, fakeer and holy beggar.
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Fakir Sentence Examples

  • January onwards The Fakir of Ipi makes repeated attempts to foment unrest against British colonial rule in India's North-West Frontier Province.

  • Modern primitive cultural leaders included Fakir Musafar, who promoted modern primitivism as an offshoot of the 1970's punk subculture.

  • This Mahommedan soldier-adventurer, who, followed by his son Tippoo, became the most formidable Asiatic rival the British ever encountered in India, was the great-grandson of a fakir or wandering ascetic of Islam, who had found his way from the Punjab to Gulburga in the Deccan, and the second son of a naik or chief constable at Budikota, near Kolar in Mysore.

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