fakir

IPA(Pronunciation)

/fəˈkiɹ/

Noun

derogatory

(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.

Japanese Meaning

イスラム教における、私有財産を持たず施しだけで生活する修行者 / ヒンドゥー教における、耐久力や奇跡的な行為を行う修行苦行者

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The fakir sat quietly by the shrine, accepting alms with a gentle smile.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

私有財産を持たず施しだけで暮らすイスラムの修行者は、穏やかな笑みを浮かべて祠のそばに静かに座り、施しを受けていた。

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Sense（1）

(Islam) A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms.

Sense（2）

(Hindu, more loosely) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.

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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Sense（3）

(derogatory) Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature.

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.

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fakirs

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