- faqura
- make poor [?]
Arabic etymological dictionary. 2013.
faqura
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pqr — West Semitic, to long for. fakir, from Arabic faqīr, poor, from faqura, to be(come) poor. * * * … Universalium
fakir — c.1600, from Arabic faqir a poor man, from faqura he was poor. Term for Muslim holy man who lived by begging, misapplied in 19c. English (possibly under influence of faker) to Hindu ascetics. Arabic plural form fuqara may have led to variant… … Etymology dictionary
pqr — Definition: West Semitic, to long for. fakir, from Arabic faqīr, poor, from faqura, to be(come) poor … The American Heritage dictionary of the English language
