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Definition: Kafir |
KafirNoun1. (South Africa) an offensive term for any Black African. 2. A member of the Kafir people in northeastern Afghanistan. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "kafir" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Kaffir."
Synonyms: KafirSynonyms: caffer (n), caffre (n), kaffir (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Kafir |
| English words defined with "kafir": Kafiri. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "kafir": Guebres. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Kafir" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (kafir), Indonesian (gentile, heathen, infidel, unbeliever). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Kafir (2002) | |
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Expression using "kafir": kafir corn. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
kafir | 5 |
kafir lily | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "kafir"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kafër. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сорго, кафирирски език, кафир. (various references) | |
Czech | jihoafrické kmeny. (various references) | |
Danish | kafferkorn (kafir corn). (various references) | |
Dutch | kafir (kafir corn), kafferkoren (also known as large African or Indian millet), grain sorghum(including dari or doura, kafir corn), negerkoren (also known as large African or Indian millet), grain sorghum(including dari or doura, Indian millet, kafir corn, sorghum). (various references) | |
Finnish | kaffir (kafir corn). (various references) | |
French | kafir (kafir corn). (various references) | |
German | Kaffernkorn (kafir corn), Kaffernhirse (kafir corn), kaffer (duffer, kaffir, thick-head). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kafir. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | afirkay.(various references) | |
Russian | кафр. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nevernik (atheist, disbeliever, infidel, jilt, miscreant, non believer, nonbeliever, traitor, unbeliever), nemuhamedanac. (various references) | |
Spanish | kafir (kafir corn), sorgo kafir (kafir corn). (various references) | |
Swedish | kefir (kefir), kaffer (kaffir), svarting (kaffir), sorghum (kafir corn), otrogen (disbeliever, disloyal, false, infidel, kaffir, suspicious, unfaithful). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Sorghum caffrorum, Sorghum vulgare var.caffrorum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "kafir": kafirs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fakir. | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-k-r" | |
-1 letter: fair, fiar, kaif, raki. | |
-2 letters: air, arf, ark, far, fir, irk, kaf, kif, kir, ria, rif. | |
-3 letters: ai, ar, fa, if, ka. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-k-r" | |
+1 letter: fakirs, kaffir, kafirs. | |
+2 letters: finmark, flakier, kaffirs, ratfink. | |
+3 letters: backfire, fakeries, finmarks, finnmark, fireback, franking, franklin, freakier, freakily, freaking, freakish, ratfinks, wakerife. | |
+4 letters: backfired, backfires, drawknife, dwarflike, fairylike, filmmaker, finnmarks, firebacks, firebreak, firedrake, forsaking, franklins, freakiest, friedcake, fruitcake, jackfruit, kingcraft, scarfskin, tackifier. | |
+5 letters: backfiring, fatherlike, filmmakers, firebreaks, firedrakes, flackeries, freakiness, freakishly, friedcakes, fruitcakes, jackfruits, kingcrafts, scarfskins, tackifiers, trafficked, trafficker. | |
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