fukara

fukara (first-person possessive fukaraku, second-person possessive fukaramu, third-person possessive fukaranya)

1. poor

   Fukara tak punya apa apa ― The poor have nothing

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فقرا (fukara), from Arabic فُقَرَاء (fuqarāʔ), plural form of فَقِير (faqīr, “poor man, pauper”). Compare fàkīr.

• IPA^(key): /fukǎra/
• Hyphenation: fu‧ka‧ra

fukàra f (Cyrillic spelling фука̀ра)

1. (regional, uncountable, collectively) the poor and pathetic

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:fukara.

• fukàrluk

From fȕkati (“to fuck”).

• IPA^(key): /fûkara/
• Hyphenation: fu‧ka‧ra

fȕkara f (Cyrillic spelling фу̏кара)

1. (regional, vulgar, colloquial) the act of fucking
2. (regional, vulgar, colloquial) a whore

• “fukara” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 285

Borrowed from Arabic فُقَرَاء (fuqarāʔ), plural form of فَقِير (faqīr, “poor man, pauper”).

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fukara (ma class, plural mafukara)

1. pauper, beggar

• ufukara

fukara (invariable)

1. poor, destitute

From Ottoman Turkish فقرا, from Arabic فُقَرَاء (fuqarāʔ), plural form of فَقِير (faqīr, “poor man, pauper”).

• IPA^(key): /fukaraː/
• Hyphenation: fu‧ka‧ra

fukara (definite accusative fukarayı, plural fukaralar)

1. (archaic) Arabic plural of fakir; the poor.
2. poor, pauper
3. faqir

fukara

1. poor, pauper (not rich)

   Synonyms: fakir, yoksul

   Antonyms: gani, zengin, varlıklı, varsıl

2. poor, pitiable (to be pitied)

   Synonym: düşkün

• → Aromanian: fucãrã, fucãre

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fukara”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1617
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فقرا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 906
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fukara”, in Nişanyan Sözlük