fakir
Meanings
noun
- A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.
- An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.
- Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr, “poor man”).
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