# fakir
## English
### Alternative forms

* faquir (obsolete)
* faqir, faquir
* faqueer (dated)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr, “poor man”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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.
* (Hinduism, 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: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.
* (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.

#### Derived terms

* fakirism

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Kafir, farik, kafir

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [faˈkiɐ̯ˀ]

### Noun

fakir c (singular definite fakiren, plural indefinite fakirer)
* (Islam, Hinduism) fakir

#### Inflection
### References

* “fakir” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfaː.ki(ː)r/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: fa‧kir

### Noun

fakir m (plural fakirs, diminutive fakirtje n)
* (Islam, Hinduism) fakir

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr, “poor man”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfakɪr/
* Rhymes: -kɪr, -ɪr, -r
* Hyphenation: fa‧kir

### Noun

fakir (plural fakir-fakir)
* 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

### Further reading

* “fakir” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)

#### 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: /fǎkiːr/
* Hyphenation: fa‧kir

### Noun

fàkīr m (Cyrillic spelling фа̀кӣр)
* faqir
* (Hindu) fakir (an ascetic mendicant)
* (regional) a destitute man

#### Derived terms

* fakírak

### References

* “fakir”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
* Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 276

## Turkish
### Alternative forms

* fakır (dialectal)

### Etymology

Inherited 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: /fɑcir/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: fa‧kir

### Noun

fakir (definite accusative fakiri, plural fakirler)
* (Hindu) fakir (an ascetic mendicant)

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
fakir
fakirler
definite accusative
fakiri
fakirleri
dative
fakire
fakirlere
locative
fakirde
fakirlerde
ablative
fakirden
fakirlerden
genitive
fakirin
fakirlerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
fakirim
fakirlerim
2nd singular
fakirin
fakirlerin
3rd singular
fakiri
fakirleri
1st plural
fakirimiz
fakirlerimiz
2nd plural
fakiriniz
fakirleriniz
3rd plural
fakirleri
fakirleri
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
fakirimi
fakirlerimi
2nd singular
fakirini
fakirlerini
3rd singular
fakirini
fakirlerini
1st plural
fakirimizi
fakirlerimizi
2nd plural
fakirinizi
fakirlerinizi
3rd plural
fakirlerini
fakirlerini
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
fakirime
fakirlerime
2nd singular
fakirine
fakirlerine
3rd singular
fakirine
fakirlerine
1st plural
fakirimize
fakirlerimize
2nd plural
fakirinize
fakirlerinize
3rd plural
fakirlerine
fakirlerine
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
fakirimde
fakirlerimde
2nd singular
fakirinde
fakirlerinde
3rd singular
fakirinde
fakirlerinde
1st plural
fakirimizde
fakirlerimizde
2nd plural
fakirinizde
fakirlerinizde
3rd plural
fakirlerinde
fakirlerinde
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
fakirimden
fakirlerimden
2nd singular
fakirinden
fakirlerinden
3rd singular
fakirinden
fakirlerinden
1st plural
fakirimizden
fakirlerimizden
2nd plural
fakirinizden
fakirlerinizden
3rd plural
fakirlerinden
fakirlerinden
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
fakirimin
fakirlerimin
2nd singular
fakirinin
fakirlerinin
3rd singular
fakirinin
fakirlerinin
1st plural
fakirimizin
fakirlerimizin
2nd plural
fakirinizin
fakirlerinizin
3rd plural
fakirlerinin
fakirlerinin :

### Adjective

fakir
* poor, pauper
    Synonyms: fukara, yoksul, züğürt
    Antonyms: gani, zengin, varlıklı, varsıl
    Paralarımla yardım edebileceğim fakir insanları düşün.Think of the poor people I could help with all my money.

#### Derived terms

* fakir cevher
* fakir düşmek
* fakir fukara
* fakir kol
* fakir tavuğu tek tek yumurtlar
* fakirhane
* fakirlik

#### Related terms

* fakr
* fukara

### References

* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fakir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

### Further reading

* “fakir”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
* Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “fakir”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı

### Anagrams

* kafir