fakir

How To Use fakir In A Sentence

• The Hindu fakir would sit for days without food or water, or bury himself alive as a kind of spiritual observance, a separation of mind from body.
• “Salam Alaikum bema sebastem,” answered the Fakir; The Surgeon's Daughter
• It is probable that after passing several months or years in a state of immobility fakirs no longer experience any desire to change their position, and even did they so desire, it would be impossible owing to the atrophy of their muscles and the anchylosis of their joints. Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884
• Sometimes fakir, sometimes farceur, he dominates the scenes in which he appears.
• [FN#82] The Arabic word fakir means literally, "a poor man;" but it would appear, from what follows, that Uns el Wujoud had disguised himself as a religious mendicant and was taken for such by the people of the castle. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
• It was something that a mendicant fakir might wear, a wandering beggar who told fortunes in the marketplace for a couple of crowns. LORD PRESTIMION
• If I try to cast my mind back to the time before I knew Arabic, I suppose I thought 'fakir' meant 'yogi, swami, thin person with straggly beard who lies in bed of nails'; but I'm pretty sure I always saw the connexion with 'faker' as just an accident. Languagehat.com: FAKIR/FAKER
• A bonze asserts that Fo is a God, that he was foretold by fakirs, that he was born of a white elephant, and that every bonze can by certain grimaces make a Fo. A Philosophical Dictionary
• When a man appears as a Fakir or Darwaysh, he casts off, in process of regeneration, together with other worldly sloughs, his laical name for some brilliant coat of nomenclature rich in religious promise. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
• It does not encourage religious authorities to sink into meditation, as do the Hindu fakirs.