fakir

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.
  2. An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. Hinduism
    — 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.
  3. Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature. derogatory
    — 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.

词形变化

fakirs plural fakeer alternative faqir alternative faqueer alternative,obsolete faquir alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
fakirism

词源

Etymology tree
Arabic فَقِير (faqīr)bor.
English fakir
Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr, “poor man”).
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