Fakir in a sentence as a noun

The irony in your comment stings so hard, I'm feeling like a fakir reading it...

The borrowing of fakir into English is largely the result of British colonialism in India.

[6] According to his principles and instructions,[7] Gurdjieff's method for awakening one's consciousness unites the methods of the fakir, monk and yogi, and thus he referred to it as the "Fourth Way".

Fakir definitions

noun

a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man

See also: fakeer faqir faquir