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Noun1.Faquir - a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy manfaquir - a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man
Moslem, Muslim - a believer in or follower of Islam
dervish - an ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements
holy man, holy person, saint, angel - person of exceptional holiness
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(17) Esta tipica estratagema oriental, dice Balderston, podria relacionarse con la figura de un indio vestido como un faquir desnudo, segun una definicion de Churchill respecto de Gandhi, que en sus negociaciones con el imperio, parecia un santo, pero era "una persona sumamente astuta y capaz".
In this way, it is clear that the abscission of flowers and pods in soybean plants is associated with other factors, such as the hormonal balance and the availability or capacity of use of assimilates by the plants (Liu et al., 2004a; Liu et al., 2004b; Nonokawa et al., 2007; Faquir et al., 2011).
Faquir Dara School in Karmara sector of Poonch district was heavily damaged due to continuous ceasefire violation and shelling from the Pakistani side.
Fouzia Hameed, Parveen Masood Bhatti, Khalid Mansoor, Shahnaz Saleem, Chaudhary Nazeer Ahmad, Faquir Sher Muhamamd Bilanani, Iftikhar Nazir and Syed Essa Noori, PARC Chief Scientist Dr.
Study ES (95% CI) % Weight Blansfield 2002 (25) 0.25 (-0.05, 0.55) 1.56 Bohacek 2012(26) 0.26 (0.07, 0.46) 3.27 Faquir 2010 (28) 0.50 (-0.19, 1.19) 0.31 Jo 2010 (29) 0.09 (0.04, 0.14) 15.86 Mufti 2012 (30) 0.17 (-0.13, 0.46) 1.58 Nayar 2009 (31) 0.09 (0.02, 0.15) 13.12 Oertel 2007 (32) 0.50 (0.01, 0.99) 0.61 Poller 2000 (33) 0.06 (-0.05, 0.17) 7.68 Renshaw 2011 (34) 0.20 (0.15, 0.25) 15.36 Sclabas 2003 (35) 0.09 (-0.08, 0.26) 4.21 Theoharis 2009 (37) 0.32 (0.14, 0.50) 3.73 Wu 2006 (15) 0.12 (-0.04, 0.27) 4.95 Wu 2012 (38) 0.14 (-0.01, 0.29) 5.12 Yang 2007 (39) 0.11 (0.02, 0.20) 9.89 Yassa 2007 (40) 0.10 (0.04, 0.17) 12.75 Overall 0.13 (0.09, 0.17) 100.00 NOTE: Weights are from random-effects analysis thyroid nodule, follicular adenoma, and well-differentiated follicular carcinoma.
Narrimane Faquir, a Moroccan filmmaker, was the local casting director for the 2014 film, "American Sniper" (in that one, Morocco stands in for Iraq).