It is the plural of Fakir. Fakir is also used. It is a type of religious, mostly Hindu, practitioner of yoga, who lives in great austerity, public charity (for charity), in permanent prayer and making acts of penitents automortificaciones sometimes very risky and surprising. In Colombia we say "making course for fakir", the person who endures hunger, surviving on minimum conditions, in much poverty. Poor, miserable, skinny, skeletal.