فقير

• IPA^(key): /fa.qiːr/

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فَقِير • (faqīr) (feminine فَقِيرَة (faqīra), common plural فُقَرَاء (fuqarāʔ), masculine plural فُقُر (fuqur), feminine plural فَقِيرَات (faqīrāt), elative أَفْقَر (ʔafqar))

1. penniless, poverty-stricken

   Antonym: غَنِيّ (ḡaniyy)

2. wretched
3. in need
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 35:15:

     يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ أَنتُمُ الْفُقَرَاءُ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَاللَّهُ هُوَ الْغَنِيُّ الْحَمِيدُ

     O Mankind! It is you who are in dire need of God; but God is Free of all needs, the Most Worthy of all praise!

• Maltese: fqir
• → Azerbaijani: fağır, fəqir
• → Bashkir: бахыр (baxır)
• → Dutch: fakir
• → English: fakir, faquir (obsolete), faqir, faquir, faqueer (dated)
• → French: fakir
• → Indonesian: fakir
• → Kazakh: пақыр (paqyr)
• → Kyrgyz: факир (fakir), бакыр (bakır)
• → Macedonian: факир (fakir)
• → Ottoman Turkish: فقیر
  • → Turkish: fakir, fakır
• → Persian: فقیر (faqir)
• → Polish: fakir
• → Russian: факи́р (fakír)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: фа̀кӣр
  • Latin script: fàkīr
• → Southern Altai: бакыр (bakïr)
• → Spanish: faquir
• → Swahili: fukara
• → Sylheti: ꠚꠇꠤꠞ (fókir)
• → Turkmen: pahyr
• → Uyghur: پېقىر (pëqir)
• → Uzbek: faqir

فَقِير • (faqīr) m (plural فُقَرَاء (fuqarāʔ))

1. poor man, pauper
2. mendicant dervish, Sufi mendicant

• → Swahili: fukara (from the plural فُقَرَاء (fuqarāʔ))

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “فقر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic فَقِير (faqīr).

• IPA^(key): /fa.ɡiːr/

فقير • (fagīr) (feminine فقيرة (fagīra))

1. poor

   Antonym: غني (ḡani)