Fakeer vs. Fakir

Fakeernoun

An Eastern religious ascetic or monk.

Fakirnoun

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

Fakeernoun

same as fakir.

Fakirnoun

An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.

Fakeernoun

a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man

Fakirnoun

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

Fakirnoun

an Oriental Muslim or Hindu religious ascetic or begging monk who is regarded as a holy man or a wonder worker.

Fakirnoun

See Faker.

Fakirnoun

a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man

Fakir

A fakir, faqeer or faqir (; Arabic: فقیر (noun of faqr)), derived from faqr (Arabic: فقر, ) is an Islamic term traditionally used for a Sufi Muslim whose contingency and utter dependence upon God is manifest in everything they do and every breath they take. They do not necessarily renounce all relationships and take a vow of poverty, some may be poor and some may even be wealthy, but the adornments of the temporal worldly life are kept in perspective and do not detract from their constant neediness of God.

‘poverty’;