Kaffir

Definitions: Kaffir

Kaffir

Noun

1. Important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves.

2. (South Africa) an offensive term for any Black African.

Date "kaffir" was first used: 1801. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Kaffir (Arabic, K�fir. an infidel). A name given to the Hottentots, who reject the Moslem faith. Kafiristan, in Central Asia, means "the country of the infidels." "The affinity of the Kafir tribes ... including the Kafirs proper and the people of Congo, is based upon the various idioms spoken by them, the direct representatives of a common, but now extinct, mother tongue. This aggregate of languages is now conveniently known as ... the Bantu linguistic system." - K. Johnston: Africa, p. 447. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Kaffir (or Kafir) is an Arabic word meaning liar. In a religious context it is often used to mean infidel, unbeliever, i.e., a non-Muslim.

In South Africa, some white people, especially among Afrikaners, use the word Kaffir as a derogatory term referring to persons of aboriginal African descent; it is a counterpart of the North American word nigger.

Kaffir is also a variety of lime, the Kaffir lime leaves used in cooking.

Synonyms: Kaffir

Synonyms: caffer (n), caffre (n), great millet (n), kaffir corn (n), kafir (n), kafir corn (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Neologism	Dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Kaffir

English words defined with "kaffir": kaffir boom, kaffir bread, kaffir cat, kaffir corn ♦ Zulus. (references)

Specialty definitions using "kaffir": African Kaffir cat. (references)

Etymologies containing "kaffir": Giaour. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	8th Kaffir War, 1850-1853 : a provisional list of officers of the irregular forces of the Cape of Good Hope (reference) A Compendium of Kaffir Laws and Customs: Including Genealogical Tables of Kaffir Chiefs (reference) Camp life and sport in South Africa : experiences of Kaffir warfare with the Cape Mounted Rifles (reference) Kaffir Boy (reference) The Kaffir wars, 1779-1877 (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Latest model rotary pump on Kaffir Plantation, South Africa. Credit: Library of Congress.		Project manager with bags of kaffir seed grown by resettled farmers. Ropesville rural community, Hockley County, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.
	William Rall, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client standing amidst kaffir corn on his farm in Sheridan County, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress.		Fruits of the soil on farm of Ernest W. Kirk Jr. ,FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Ordway, Colorado. Shown in the picture are sugar beets, honeydew melon, hybrid corn, successfully grown stringbeans and kaffir corn in background. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Kaffir corn stubble breaks up the wind currents and prevents soil from being blown away. Hartley County Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.		Field of kaffir corn which is now growing on the Bosley reogranization unit. Baca County, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"Kaffir" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Kaffir" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	11	106,044

Expressions using "kaffir": African Kaffir cat ♦ kaffir boom ♦ kaffir bread ♦ kaffir cat ♦ kaffir corn ♦ kitchen Kaffir. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "kaffir": Zulu-Kaffir.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "kaffir"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		sorghummel (kaffir meal, sorghum meal), durramel (kaffir meal, sorghum meal). (various references)

Dutch		sorghummeel (kaffir meal, sorghum meal). (various references)

Finnish		sorghumjauho (kaffir meal, sorghum meal). (various references)

French		farine de sorgho (kaffir meal), citron kaffir (kaffir lime), Chat ganté (African Kaffir cat), Chat de Cafrerie (African Kaffir cat), chat de Caffrerie (African Kaffir cat), chat caffre (African Kaffir cat). (various references)

German		kaffer (duffer, kafir, nigger, thick-head). (various references)

Greek		καφρόσ. (various references)

Italian		farina di sorgo (kaffir meal, sorghum meal). (various references)

Pig Latin		affirkay

Portuguese		farinha de sorgo (kaffir meal, sorghum meal). (various references)

Spanish		harina de sorgo (kaffir meal, sorghum meal). (various references)

Swedish		kaffer (kafir), svarting (darkey, darky, kafir), otrogen (disbeliever, disloyal, false, infidel, kafir, suspicious, unfaithful). (various references)

Turkish		güney afrika'da bir kabile. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Arabic	500-Modern	qafir. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "kaffir": kaffirs. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-f-i-k-r"
	-1 letter: fakir, kafir.
	-2 letters: fair, fiar, kaif, raff, raki, riff.
	-3 letters: aff, air, arf, ark, far, fir, iff, irk, kaf, kif, kir, ria, rif.
	-4 letters: ai, ar, fa, if, ka.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-f-i-k-r"
	+1 letter: kaffirs.
	+4 letters: trafficked, trafficker.
	+5 letters: traffickers, trafficking.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4B 61 66 66 69 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001011 01100001 01100110 01100110 01101001 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#97 &#102 &#102 &#105 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0061 0066 0066 0069 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

456772727584

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Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, ‏هولندي, ‏اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, �"ול� �"י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란�"�, Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน�"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน�"์, � รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b� xã", for Dutch;
Fins, finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, ‏اللغة الفنلندية, ‏فنلندية, ‏فنلندي, фински език, фински, Pinlandino, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, finskt, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי� י, finn, finnskur, finnska, finlandese, 핀란�"�, Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, Finisi, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський, tiếng Phần-lan, for Finnish;
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Sweeds, suedez, ‏اللغة السويدية, Suecu, шведски език, шведски, швед, Swedis, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, svenskt, ruotsalainen, suédois, Sweedsk, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, sænskur, Sualainnis, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン�", 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, suèc, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน � าษาและวั�'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ�"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển, for Swedish;
Turks, turk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, Turcu, турски, турски език, Turko, 土耳其, 土耳其語 , tureètina, turecký, turkist, turkkilainen, turque, turc, Turksk, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türk, türkçe, турецька мова, турецький, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ, for Turkish;

Expression	Frequency per Day
kaffir boy	37
kaffir lime leaf	22
kaffir lime	18
kaffir	15
boy kaffir summary	8
kaffir lime tree	7
kaffir lily	6
boy kaffir vocabulary	4
kaffir leaf lime substitute whats	4
boy cliff kaffir note	3
boy kaffir note	3
kaffir leaf	3
kaffir lime seed	2
boy by kaffir mark mathabane	2
boy guide kaffir study	2
kaffir lilly	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Kaffir

Definitions: Kaffir

Kaffir

Noun

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Synonyms: Kaffir

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4B 61 66 66 69 72

-.- .- ..-. ..-. .. .-.

01001011 01100001 01100110 01100110 01101001 01110010

&#75 &#97 &#102 &#102 &#105 &#114

004B 0061 0066 0066 0069 0072

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