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Examples of fakir
fakir
For the coffin, I read about an Indian fakir who was buried alive for a month.
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Fakir has not read the suit and wouldn't comment, his spokesman Matt Lee said.
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In the book, the fakir copied the doctor's handwriting and wrote the letter.
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Fakir hasn't let up despite the loss of his mates or the lure of the links.
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A Yazidi religious man, or fakir, ties lucky knots into cloth in Lalish.
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The 6th Baul fakir Utsav will be held on 8th and 9 January 2011.
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At the end of the play Jasma Odan, a Muslim fakir appears to whom people request to revive Jasma.
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He is the master showman of his instrument, and he charms an audience as a fakir charms a snake.
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He meets a mad fakir, and escapes from a mental asylum.
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- A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man
- Extinct
- A faqir; an ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic
- To dream of an Indian fakir, denotes uncommon activity and phenomenal changes in your life. Such dreams may sometimes be of gloomy import.
- Literally means, "poor man"; member of a Muslim monastic order
- A performer of seemingly miraculous feats (such as firewalking, snake charming and lying on a bed of nails), usually with some religious significance. This term is sometimes mistakenly used to describe a magician or conjurer; the proper Indian term for "magician" is really jadoo wallah.
- (Arabic) [from faqir poor] An Islamic religious mendicant, synonymous with dervish; the term is loosely applied to any mendicant devotee or yogi in India. According to T. P. ...
- A Moslem itinerant beggar, often one claiming to perform miracles (also sp. faquir)
- Muslim ascetic or religious mendicant, but loosely applied to Hindu ascetics also.
