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Meanings of fakeer in English
Synonyms
Examples for "fakir"
Examples for "fakir"
1
The bark of the fakir rasped the tightening nerves of the town.
2
What the Indian fakir does in a cataleptic condition may be duplicated.
3
He started off toward the cell where he had imprisoned the fakir.
4
The fakir shuddered, evidently thinking that the charge was intended for himself.
5
It is vanity, of an iron-bound kind, that makes the wandering fakir.
1
Will this do? There was a lothely faquir salaaming in the doorway.
2
I must hear his voice again, urged the faquir.
3
As a Mahommedan faquir-asMcIntosh Jellaludin-hewas all that I wanted for my own ends.
4
A faquir hung about Bronckhorst's compound for twelve days.
5
Then he murmured a faquir's blessing in his ear, and asked him how his second wife did.
1
To this the faqir replied: 'O youth!
2
The announcement on Aug. 22 of Hakimullah's succession was made by Faqir Mohammad.
3
Somewhat strangely, Faqir Mohammad had put himself up as a stop-gap leader just two days earlier.
4
A BBC report quoted Faqir Mohammad, head of the Taliban in the Bajaur tribal region, as saying Hakimullah was selected.
Usage of fakeer in English
1
Next day the fakeer joined again; made him leave at Mana.
2
He cared no more for punishment than the fakeer for his self-inflicted tortures.
3
The toad is a fakeer, and thinks the beatitude of life lies in contemplation.
4
Sometimes a fakeer trusted a shade too far in the protection of his sacredness.
5
On that expedition they murdered a fakeer and twelve beggars.
6
After the killing of thirty-nine men and one woman, the fakeer appears on the scene:
7
Drove off the fakeer, and killed the other three.
8
To this the fakeer agreed, and so they parted.
9
When near it, the fakeer came again.
10
All four were strangled, including the fakeer.
11
Drove off the fakeer with stones, and killed the 6 men in camp, and buried them in the grove.
12
The fakeer was seated on a little old bedstead reading the Koran, with his patched cloak thrown over his shoulders.
13
The fakeer rose, and, making a sign to the king to follow, walked a few paces along a dark passage.
14
Fakīr (fakeer), a religious mendicant.
15
Instantly he hurried off himself, and found that it was really true, and that the fakeer was even then breathing his last.
16
Leaving Doregow, the fakeer joined again, and went on in company to Raojana; met 6 Khutries on their way from Bombay to Nagpore.
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Frequent collocations
Fakeer through the time