qalandar

Meaning

Noun

A wandering ascetic Sufi dervish.

Origin

From Persian قلندر, possibly a re-borrowing through Arabic of original Persian کلندر "a rough, uncouth man" from Persian کلند "rough, unshaved, unsmoothed"

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