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dervish
One that possesses abundant, often frenzied energy:
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  1. One that possesses abundant, often frenzied energy:
  2. A member of any of various Muslim religious groups dedicated to a life of poverty and chastity: some dervishes practice whirling, chanting, etc. as religious acts
yogi
A person who practices yoga
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  1. A person who practices yoga
  2. One who is adept in yoga.
mendicant
A beggar; person who begs for alms
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  1. A beggar; person who begs for alms
  2. A member of a mendicant order.
  3. A mendicant friar
Find another word for fakir. In this page you can discover 5 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for fakir, like: dervish, holy beggar, yogi, mendicant and ascetic.

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  • 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.

  • FAKIR (from Arabic faqir, " poor"), a term equivalent to Dervish or Mahommedan religious mendicant, but which has come to be specially applied to the Hindu devotees and ascetics of India.

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

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

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