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faqīr (v.n. fr. فقر ; see faqr), adj. & s.m. Poor, needy, indigent, destitute;—a poor man; a beggar; a religious mendicant; a derwish; an ascetic, a devotee:—faqīr-dost, adj. Friendly to the poor, or to derwishes:—faqīr karnā, v.t. To impoverish, to reduce to beggary:—faqīr honāor ho-jānā, v.n. To become poor, be reduced to indigence;—to become a religious mendicant, or a devotee.
Origin: Arabic