Crossword-Solution: FAKIR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Fakir | n. | An Oriental religious ascetic or begging monk. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| FAKIR | anagram | FRAIK, KAFIR |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with FAKIR (5)
Atkinson was leaning against a tree with a listless face; Quinton’s wife was still at her window; the doctor had gone strolling round the end of the conservatory; they could see his cigar like a will-o’-the-wisp; and the fakir still sat rigid and yet rocking, while the trees above him began to rock and almost to roar.
Can you tell me how the Indian fakir can make himself to die and have been buried, and his grave sealed and corn sowed on it, and the corn reaped and be cut and sown and reaped and cut again, and then men come and take away the unbroken seal and that there lie the Indian fakir, not dead, but that rise up and walk amongst them as before?” Here I interrupted him.
With Indian languages and their variations, he was as completely at home as Miss Youghal’s Sais; and, one may suppose, could have played the _rôle_ of a fakir as perfectly as he did that of a Mecca pilgrim.
And the doctor--it was always hard fur me to get to calling him anything but Doctor Kirby--how he had happened to start out with a good chancet in life and turn into jest a travelling fakir.
Davis.)] 156 (return) [ In some passage of his voluminous writings, Voltaire compares the prophet, in his old age, to a fakir, “qui detache la chaine de son cou pour en donner sur les oreilles a ses confreres.”] 157 (return) [ Gagnier relates, with the same impartial pen, this humane law of the prophet, and the murders of Caab, and Sophian, which he prompted and approved, (Vie de Mahomet, tom.
Quotes with FAKIR (1)
Instant Reading. A certain famous Fakir was claiming in the village that he could teach an illiterate person to read by a lightning technique. Nasrudin stepped out of the crowd: 'Very well, teach me — now.' The Fakir touched the Mulla's forehead, and said: 'Now go home immediately and read a book.' Half an our later Nasrudin was back in the market-place, clutching a book. The Fakir had gone on his way. 'Can you read now, Mulla?' the people asked him. 'Yes, I can read — but th…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 83 times in crossword archives (1943–2020).