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) enPR: käʹfîr, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːfɪə/
• (General American) enPR: käʹfîr, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːfɪɹ/

English Wikipedia has an article on:

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).

2. (uncountable) Short for 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,^[1] but others consider this an error.^[2][3] The term is sometimes derogatory.^[4][5][6]

• kafirize
• kafirness
• Kafirism

• kufr

• 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).
• The sense “non-Christian” is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ῥακά (rhaká).

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ka‧fir

kafir (first-person possessive kafirku, second-person possessive kafirmu, third-person possessive kafirnya)

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

From Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “denier, unbeliever”).

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -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.

• “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