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noun, plural Kaf·firs, (especially collectively) Kaf·fir.
1.
Disparaging and Offensive. (in South Africa) a black person: originally used of the Xhosa people only.
2.
(lowercase) kafir (def. 4).
3.
Origin:
1780–90; < Arabic kāfir unbeliever, infidel, skeptic
1780–90; < Arabic kāfir unbeliever, infidel, skeptic
Related forms
non-Kaf·fir, noun
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Kaffir
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
kaffir
1790, from Arabic qafir "unbeliever, infidel, impious wretch," with a lit. sense of "one who does not admit the blessings of God," from kafara "to cover up, conceal, deny." Technically, "non-Muslim," but in Ottoman times it came to be used almost exclusively for "Christian." Early Eng. missionaries used
EXPANDit as an equivalent of "heathen" to refer to Bantus in South Africa (1792), from which use it came generally to mean "South African black" regardless of ethnicity, and to be a term of abuse since at least 1934.
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