different between fakir vs miskin

English

Alternative forms

• faquir (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ??????? (faq?r, “poor man”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??ki?/, /f??k???/, /f??ki?/, /?fe?k??/
• Homophone: faker
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

fakir (plural fakirs)

1. (Islam) A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms.
2. (Hindu, more loosely) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.
3. (derogatory) Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature.
   • 1905, Eclectic Magazine, Foreign Literature, Science, and Art

     He denounces no one until he has all the damaging facts in hand, very frequently backed up with affidavits. He 'Lawsonized' certain stock jobbers and financial fakirs of London before the Boston advertising man was heard of.

   • 1927, The Rotarian, page 30

     "But a stranger who had come up to the group just at this point, when they were pronouncing the soup delicious, laughed aloud. "'What a set of fools you all are!' he cried. 'This tramp is just a fakir. That stone had nothing to do with the soup."

   • 1994, Michael Barry Miller, Shanghai on the Métro: Spies, Intrigue, and the French Between the Wars, Univ of California Press ?ISBN, page 252

     He was, as the undercover agent concluded, a fabulous raconteur or, as one other person summed him up, "a monumental fakir and liar."

   • 2009, Gelett Burgess, The Heart Line: A Drama of San Francisco, Lulu.com ?ISBN, page 175

     From what I hear of him he's a fakir, and I won't encourage him in his attempts to get into society at my expense.

Translations

Anagrams

• Kafir, farik, kafir

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic ??????? (faq?r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?.ki(?)r/
• Hyphenation: fa?kir

Noun

fakir m (plural fakirs, diminutive fakirtje n)

1. (Islam, Hinduism) fakir

French

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (faq?r, “poor man”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.ki?/

Noun

fakir m (plural fakirs)

1. fakir (all meanings)

Further reading

• “fakir” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (faq?r, “poor man”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa.k?ir/

Noun

fakir m pers

1. (Islam) fakir (faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms)

   Synonym: derwisz

2. (Hinduism) fakir (ascetic mendicant)

Declension

Derived terms

• (noun) fakirek
• (adjective) fakirowy

Further reading

• fakir in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• fakir in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (faq?r, “poor man”), probably via Ottoman Turkish ????? (fakir). Compare fukàra, fukàrluk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?ki?r/
• Hyphenation: fa?kir

Noun

fàk?r m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. faqir
2. (Hindu) fakir (an ascetic mendicant)
3. (regional) a destitute man

Declension

Derived terms

• fakírak

References

• “fakir” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• Škalji?, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 276

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (fakir), from Arabic ??????? (faq?r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /facir/
• Hyphenation: fa?kir

Noun

fakir (definite accusative fakiri, plural fakirler)

1. (Hindu) fakir (an ascetic mendicant)

Declension

Adjective

fakir (comparative daha fakir, superlative en fakir)

1. poor, pauper

Synonyms

• fukara
• yoksul
• zü?ürt

Antonyms

• zengin
• varl?kl?
• vars?l

Anagrams

• kafir

English

Etymology

Perhaps music +? -kin.

Noun

miskin (plural miskins)

1. (obsolete, music) A little bagpipe.
   • 1593, Michael Drayton, "Pastorals II: The Second Eclogue" (1619 edition)[1]:

     Now would I tune my Miskins on this Greene,

Anagrams

• Kinism, simkin

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic ????????? (misk?n).

Adjective

miskin (comparative daha miskin, superlative ?n miskin)

1. wretched

Derived terms

• miskinlik

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic ????????? (misk?n).

Adjective

miskin

1. poor, needy, unfortunate, impoverished

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ????????? (misk?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?s?ki?n/

Adjective

miskin (feminine singular miskina, plural msieken, diminutive msejken)

1. poor (inspiring pity)

   Synonym: povru

Maranao

Etymology

From Malay miskin, from Arabic ????????? (misk?n).

Adjective

miskin

1. poor, needy

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ????????? (misk?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [miscin]
• Hyphenation: mis?kin

Adjective

miskin (comparative daha miskin, superlative en miskin)

1. idle; tending to sloth
2. (obsolete) poor, unfortunate

See also

• tembel
• zavall?
• aciz