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5-letter words (2 found)

FAKIR,KAFIR,

4-letter words (8 found)

FAIK,FAIR,FIAR,FIRK,KAIF,KRAI,RAIK,RAKI,

3-letter words (14 found)

AIR,ARF,ARK,FAR,FIR,FRA,IRK,KAF,KAI,KIF,KIR,RAI,RIA,RIF,

2-letter words (6 found)

AI,AR,FA,IF,KA,KI,

You can make 30 words from fakir according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of fakir

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Definitions and meaning of fakir

fakir

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fəˈkiɹ/, /fəˈkɪəɹ/, /fɑˈkiɹ/, /ˈfeɪkəɹ/
  • Homophone: faker
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

fakir (plural fakirs)

  1. (Islam) A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms.
  2. (Hinduism, more loosely) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.
  3. (derogatory) Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Kafir, farik, kafir

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaː.ki(ː)r/
  • Hyphenation: fa‧kir

Noun

fakir m (plural fakirs, diminutive fakirtje n)

  1. (Islam, Hinduism) fakir

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fa.kiʁ/

Noun

fakir m (plural fakirs)

  1. 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(key): /ˈfakɪr/
  • Rhymes: -kɪr, -ɪr, -r
  • Hyphenation: fa‧kir

Noun

fakir (plural fakir-fakir, first-person possessive fakirku, second-person possessive fakirmu, third-person possessive fakirnya)

  1. poor, destitute
  2. mendicant
  3. fakir, faqir.

Alternative forms

  • faqir
  • pakir
  • pekir

Derived terms

References

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 Indonesia, 2016.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfa.kir/
  • Rhymes: -akir
  • Syllabification: fa‧kir

Noun

fakir m pers

  1. (Islam) fakir (faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms)
    Synonym: derwisz
  2. (Hinduism) fakir (ascetic mendicant)

Declension

Derived terms

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(key): /fǎkiːr/
  • Hyphenation: fa‧kir

Noun

fàkīr m (Cyrillic spelling фа̀кӣр)

  1. faqir
  2. (Hindu) fakir (an ascetic mendicant)
  3. (regional) a destitute man

Declension

Derived terms

  • fakírak

References

  • “fakir” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • 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(key): /fɑcir/
  • Hyphenation: fa‧kir

Noun

fakir (definite accusative fakiri, plural fakirler)

  1. (Hindu) fakir (an ascetic mendicant)

Declension

Adjective

fakir

  1. poor, pauper
    Synonyms: fukara, yoksul, züğürt
    Antonyms: gani, zengin, varlıklı, varsıl

Derived terms

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

Source: wiktionary.org