kafir

It has been requested that this entry be merged with kaffir(+).

• kâfir, kāfir

Borrowed from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “denier, unbeliever”). Doublet of kaffir.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæfə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæfɚ/
• Rhymes: -æfə(ɹ)

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kafir

Wikipedia

kafir (countable and uncountable, plural kuffar or kafirs)

1. (Islam, countable, offensive, religious slur, politics) A disbeliever, a denier: someone who rejects or disbelieves in Allah or the tenets of Islam; or more broadly any non-Muslim.

   Antonym: Muslim

   • 2024 August 21, “Investigation Into Bangladeshi Preacher Amir Hamza’s Sermon in Singapore on 9 August 2024”, in Ministry of Home Affairs (Singapore)‎:

     In his sermon, Amir Hamza espoused extremist and segregationist views. He inferred that non-Muslims are “kafir” (infidels).

3. (uncountable) Ellipsis of kafir corn.
   • 1914, Omar Orlando Churchill, Forage and Silage Crops for Oklahoma, page 10:

     Kafir makes better forage than the duras.

   • 1918, Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, page 568:

     Kafir is confined practically to the Southwestern States where, owing to its drought resistant character, it has become an important crop.

• Some people use the term to refer to any non-Muslim, but others consider this an error. The term is sometimes derogatory.

• kufr
• Kufra

• kufr
• takfir
• kaffir
• kefir

• fakir, farik

kafir m or f by sense (plural kafirs)

1. alternative form of kâfir

• “kafir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

From Malay kafir, from Classical Malay kafir (“infidel”), from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “denier, unbeliever”).

• The sense “non-Jew” is a semantic loan from Hebrew גּוֹי (goi, “nation”) and semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἐθνικός (ethnikós).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkafir/
• Rhymes: -afir
• Syllabification: ka‧fir

kafir (plural kafir-kafir)

1. (in general senses) unbeliever, non-believer, infidel
2. (Islam) a kafir, a disbeliever, a denier, someone who denies the truths from Allah; or more broadly any non-Muslim
3. (Christianity) non-Christian
4. (Christianity, Jewish) gentile, non-Jew

This term is sometimes derogatory.

• “kafir” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “denier, unbeliever”).

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈkafe(r)/
  • Rhymes: -afe(r), -fe(r), -e(r)

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈkafir/
  • Rhymes: -afir, -fir, -ir
• Hyphenation: ka‧fir

kafir (Jawi spelling کافير, plural kafir-kafir)

1. (Islam, offensive, religious slur) A kafir, a disbeliever, a denier: someone who denies the truths from Allah; or more broadly any non-Muslim.

• This term is considered offensive by non-Muslims.
• To avoid offence, terms such as orang bukan Islam and orang bukan Muslim, respectively meaning a person who is "non-Islam" and a person who is "non-Muslim", are often used instead.

• > Indonesian: kafir (inherited)

• “kafir” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

kafir

Wikipedia ^pl

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.fir/
• Rhymes: -afir
• Syllabification: ka‧fir

kafir m pers

1. (Islam) kafir

• kafir in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

kafir

Wikipedia ^sv

Borrowed from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir).

kafir c

1. (Islam) kafir
   • 1910, Sven Hedin, Öfver land till Indien I‎, Albert Bonnier, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 30 March 2025, page 157:

     Men jag är »kafir» i deras ögon och muhamedanerna äta icke från samma fat som en hedning.

     But I'm a "kafir" in their eyes, and Mohammedans don't eat from the same plate as a pagan.

   • 2015 June 8, Maria Rashidi, “'När får vi vårt första svenska förortskalifat?'”, in Göteborgs-Posten‎, archived from the original on 6 April 2024:

     Egentligen talar hon om islamister som – till skillnad från många liberala, demokratiska och sekulära muslimer – anser att västerlänningar/kafirer är fiender till deras Gud.

     In reality, she's talking about islamists who – in contrast to many liberal, democratic, and secular Muslims – think that Westerners/kafirs are enemies of their God.

   • 2017 May 15, Magda Gad, “Kan bli de värsta striderna hittills”, in Expressen‎, archived from the original on 25 April 2024:

     Saudis kungahus välkomna amerikanska soldater, kafirer som inte tror på islam, till saudisk helig mark.

     The Saudi royal family welcomed American soldiers, kafirs who don't believe in Islam, to Saudi holy ground.

• icke-muslim (“non-Muslim”)

• kafir in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Kāfir in Nordisk familjebok (1st ed., 1884)