kafir
See also: kâfir
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “denier, unbeliever”). Doublet of kaffir.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: käʹfîr, IPA(key): /ˈkɑːfɪə/
- (General American) enPR: käʹfîr, IPA(key): /ˈkɑːfɪɹ/
Noun edit
kafir (countable and uncountable, plural kuffar or kafirs)
- (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
- (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.
Usage notes edit
- 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]
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
infidel, non-Muslim
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See also edit
References edit
- ^ Shaykh Al-Islam ibn Taymiyyah, v. 27, p. 264: “Whosoever does not forbid people from the deen of the Jews and Christians after the prophethood of the messenger Muhammad (saw) nor declares them kafir nor hates them, he is not a Muslim by the consensus of ALL Muslims, their scholars and the general public.”
- ^ Ahmed Affi, Hassan Affi Contemporary Interpretation of Islamic Law (Troubador Publishing Ltd 2014, →ISBN), page 12
- ^ Asghar Ali Engineer, Islam in Contemporary World (Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd 2007, →ISBN), xvi
- ^ Rajan, Julie (2015 January 30) Al Qaeda’s Global Crisis: The Islamic State, Takfir and the Genocide of Muslims[1], Routledge, retrieved 27 August 2015, page cii
- ^ Bunt, Gary (2009) Muslims[2], The Other Press, retrieved 27 August 2015, page ccxxiv
- ^ Pruniere, Gerard (2007 January 1) Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide[3], Cornell University Press, retrieved 27 August 2015, page xvi
Anagrams edit
French edit
Noun edit
kafir m or f by sense (plural kafirs)
- Alternative form of kâfir
Further reading edit
- “kafir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
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).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kafir (first-person possessive kafirku, second-person possessive kafirmu, third-person possessive kafirnya)
- unbeliever, non-believer, infidel
- (Islam) a kafir, a disbeliever, a denier: someone who denies the truths from Allah; or more broadly any non-Muslim.
- (Christianity) A non-Christian.
- (Christianity, Jewish) a gentile, a non-Jew
Usage notes edit
This term is sometimes derogatory.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “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.
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kafir m pers
Declension edit
Declension of kafir
Further reading edit
- kafir in Polish dictionaries at PWN