fakir
noun
fa·kir
1
\
fÉ™-Ë?kir 
, fä- , fa- ; Ë?fÄ?-kÉ™r
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, fä- , fa- ; Ë?fÄ?-kÉ™r
\
a
: a Muslim mendicant : dervish
b
: an itinerant Hindu ascetic or wonder-worker
2
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a traveling carnival that was run by fakirs preying on small-town rubes
a fakir peddling patent medicines that were mostly liquor and sugar
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
To be fair, the new nationalists have done their best, explicitly and repeatedly, to distance their emerging movement from white nationalists, alt-right fakirs, strident isolationists, and other assorted cranks.
—John Hood, National Review, 28 Aug. 2019
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fakir
noun
fa·kir
fÉ™-Ë?ki(É™)r 
fä-
fä-
fa-;
Ë?fÄ?-kÉ™r
1
: a Muslim beggar : dervish
2
: a wandering Hindu holy person who performs feats of magic
Etymology
from Arabic faqir, literally, "poor man"
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