kafir
See also: kâfir
English
Alternative forms
- kâfir, kāfir
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “denier, unbeliever”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: käʹfîr, IPA(key): /ˈkɑːfɪə/
Noun
kafir (countable and uncountable, plural kuffar or kafirs)
- (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.
- (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.
- 1914, Omar Orlando Churchill, Forage and Silage Crops for Oklahoma (page 10)
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
- kafirize
- kafirness
- Kafirism
Related terms
- kufr
Translations
infidel, non-Muslim
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See also
- kufr
- takfir
- kaffir
- kefir
References
- 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 (30 January 2015) Al Qaeda’s Global Crisis: The Islamic State, Takfir and the Genocide of Muslims, Routledge, retrieved 27 August 2015, page cii
- Bunt, Gary (2009) Muslims, The Other Press, retrieved 27 August 2015, page ccxxiv
- Pruniere, Gerard (1 January 2007) Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide, Cornell University Press, retrieved 27 August 2015, page xvi
Anagrams
- fakir, farik
French
Noun
kafir m or f by sense (plural kafirs)
- Alternative form of kâfir
Further reading
- “kafir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
Etymology
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
- IPA(key): [ˈka.fɪr]
- Hyphenation: ka‧fir
Noun
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
This term is sometimes derogatory.
Derived terms
- kekafiran
- mengafirkan
- pengafir
- pengafiran
Further reading
- “kafir” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈka.fir/
- Rhymes: -afir
- Syllabification: ka‧fir
Noun
kafir m pers
- (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