‘Properly an indigent person, but specially applied to a Mahommedan religious mendicant, and then loosely, and inaccurately, to Hindu devotees and…

A Brahman in the fourth stage of his life; a wandering fakir or religious mendicant. Also attributive.

A member of a mendicant order of dervishes in Turkey and Persia (modern Iran).

In southern India and Sri Lanka: an ascetic mendicant or low-caste Hindu priest.

In India: a naked mendicant; spec. such an ascetic belonging to a Hindu sect whose members were allowed to carry arms and serve as mercenaries.

(Dandi.) A S'aiva mendicant who carries a small wand (F. Hall).