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Kafir

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Kaf⋅ir

  [kaf-er, key-fer, kah-]
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–noun, plural -irs, (especially collectively) -ir.
1. Also called Nuristani. a member of an Indo-European people of Nuristan.
2. (lowercase) Islam. an infidel or unbeliever.
3. Kaffir (def. 1).
4. (lowercase) Also, kaffir. Also called kafir corn. a grain sorghum, Sorghum bicolor caffrorum, having stout, short-jointed, leafy stalks, introduced into the U.S. from southern Africa.
Origin:
1795–1805; < Ar; see Kaffir
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kaf·fir also kaf·ir   (kāf'ər)   
n.  A tropical African variety of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) grown in dry regions and in the Great Plains for grain and forage. Also called kaffir corn.

[Short for kaffir corn, probably translation of Afrikaans kafferkoring : kaffer, Kaffir (from Arabic kāfir; see Kaffir) + koring, corn.]
Kaf·fir also Kaf·ir   (kāf'ər)   
n.   pl. Kaffir or Kaf·firs also Kafir or Kaf·irs

  1. Offensive

    1. A Xhosa.

    2. often kaffir Used especially in southern Africa as a disparaging term for a Black person.

  2. Kafir A Nuristani.

  3. also kaffir Islam An infidel.


[Arabic kāfir, infidel; see giaour.]
kaf·ir   (kāf'ər)   
n.  Variant of kaffir.
Kaf·ir   (kāf'ər)   
n.  

  1. Variant of Kaffir.

  2. A Nuristani.

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