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fakir|fəˈkɪə(r), ˈfeɪkɪə(r)|
Forms: 7 fakier, (fuckeire, foker, -quere), 7–9 faquir, (8 fackire, fa(c)quier, foughar), 9 fakeer, faqueer, 8– fakir.
[a. Arab. faqīr lit. ‘poor, poor man’; some of the early forms may be due to the pl. fuqarā.]
1. a. ‘Properly an indigent person, but specially applied to a Mahommedan religious mendicant, and then loosely, and inaccurately, to Hindu devotees and naked ascetics’ (Yule).
1609Ro. C. Hist. Disc. Muley Hamet vii. C iij/2 Fokers, are men of good life, which are onely given to peace. 1638W. Bruton Newes from E. Indies 27 They are called Fuckeires. 1704Collect. Voy. (Church.) III. 568/1 You shall take care to embark all the Facquiers. 1763Scrafton Indostan (1770) 27 Bestowing a part of their plunder on..Faquirs. 1813Byron Giaour xi, Nor there the Fakir's self will wait. 1861Dickens Tom Tiddler's Gr. i, A Hindoo fakeer's ground. 1874Morley Compromise (1886) 178 A fakir would hardly be an estimable figure in our society.
b. erron. for faker, pronounced |ˈfeɪkə(r)|. U.S.
1882in S. Poe Buckboard Days (1936) 99 Thieves, Thugs, Fakirs and Bunkco-Steerers. 1902A. D. McFaul Ike Glidden xvii. 127 Each day brought its new characters, fakirs, peddlers, schemers and promoters. 1903N.Y. Even. Post 31 Oct. 5 One may see at almost any of the downtown corners a street fakir selling shoestrings. 1932E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost ix. 87 Some listen to a patent-medicine fakir.
2. attrib. and Comb., as fakir-race; fakir-like adj. and adv.
1849Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. Ser. ii. 390 Pilgrims..carrying bars of iron..fakir-like. 1859I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 146 The genuine successors..of a fakir race. 1884Pall Mall Budget 22 Aug. 6/2 The fakir-like devotion with which he has fixed his eyes upon..the House of Lords.
Hence fakirism, the system, faith, and practice of the Fakirs.
1856Kingsley Hours w. Mystics Misc. I. 349 Hindoo mysticism..has died down into brutal fakeerism. 1883Goldw. Smith in Contemp. Rev. Dec. 806 Fakirism is devil-worship. |