Hindu or Muslim ascetic who lives by begging.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            a deceiver of true believers
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            a holy mendicant, Chand beseeched him to go to his house
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            an initiate in a mendicant Sufi order
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            a type of Indian mystic, that is an Indian from India not the U
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            religious mendicant living on charity
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            An Indian holy man, usually called a sadhu, who is allegedly capable of magical and miraculous feats, but survives by begging. In the Islamic cultures a fakir turns his back on the material world to follow Allah as a beggar.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            A magician who specializes in fire walking, lying on a bed of nails, hammering spikes into his nose, etc., because other kinds of magic require too much practice.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            A fakir or faqir (Arabic: Ùقیر 'poor') is a Sufi, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. Dictionary.com & Wiktionary.org Derived from faqr (Ùقر Arabic), Lit: poverty.