kafir

See also: kâfir

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • (UK) enPR: käʹfîr, IPA(key): /ˈkɑːfɪə/

Noun

kafir (countable and uncountable, plural kuffar or kafirs)

  1. (Islam, countable) A disbeliever, a denier: someone who rejects or disbelieves in God as per Islam (Arabic: الله Allāh) or the tenets of Islam; or more broadly any non-Muslim.
  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.

Usage notes
  • 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

Translations

See also

References
  1. 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.”
  2. Ahmed Affi, Hassan Affi Contemporary Interpretation of Islamic Law (Troubador Publishing Ltd 2014, →ISBN), page 12
  3. Asghar Ali Engineer, Islam in Contemporary World (Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd 2007, →ISBN), xvi
  4. Rajan, Julie (30 January 2015) Al Qaeda’s Global Crisis: The Islamic State, Takfir and the Genocide of Muslims‎, Routledge, retrieved 27 August 2015, page cii
  5. Bunt, Gary (2009) Muslims‎, The Other Press, retrieved 27 August 2015, page ccxxiv
  6. Pruniere, Gerard (1 January 2007) Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide‎, Cornell University Press, retrieved 27 August 2015, page xvi

Anagrams

French

Noun

kafir m or f by sense (plural kafirs)

  1. Alternative form of kâfir

Further reading

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈka.fɪr]
  • Hyphenation: ka‧fir

Noun

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

Usage notes

This term is sometimes derogatory.

Derived terms
  • kekafiran
  • mengafirkan
  • pengafir
  • pengafiran

Further reading

Polish

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

Noun

kafir m pers

  1. (Islam) kafir

Declension
Declension of kafir
singular plural
nominative kafir kafirzy
genitive kafira kafirów
dative kafirowi kafirom
accusative kafira kafirów
instrumental kafirem kafirami
locative kafirze kafirach
vocative kafirze kafirzy

Further reading
  • kafir in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • kafir in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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