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faqir

/fəˈkɪə(ɹ)/noun

faqir is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of fakir” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-Q-I-R, and it appears about once in every 40 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of faqir is faqirs.

What does faqir mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of fakir.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce faqir?

  • /fəˈkɪə(ɹ)/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-faqir.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of faqir

  • faqirs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is faqir?

Faqir appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does faqir come from?

Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).