kafir

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkæfə/
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• General-American: /ˈkæfɚ/
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• rhymes with -æfə(ɹ)
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Borrowed from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “denier, unbeliever”). Doublet of kaffir.

80 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: qafir — infidel, non-Muslim
• Arabic: كَافِر (kāfir) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Armenian: գյավուր (gyavur) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Azerbaijani: kafir — infidel, non-Muslim
• Azerbaijani: gavur — infidel, non-Muslim
• Bashkir: кафыр (kafır) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Bengali: কাফির (kaphir) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Bulgarian: гяу́р (gjaúr) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Chinese: кафыр (kafɨr) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Chinese Mandarin: 卡菲勒 (kǎfēilè) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Chinese Mandarin: 卡菲爾 /卡菲尔 (kǎfēi'ěr) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Maore Comorian: kafiri — infidel, non-Muslim
• Czech: káfir — infidel, non-Muslim
• Dongxiang: kafeir — infidel, non-Muslim
• Dutch: kafir — infidel, non-Muslim
• Finnish: kafiiri — infidel, non-Muslim
• French: kâfir — infidel, non-Muslim
• French: kafir — infidel, non-Muslim
• Georgian: გიაური (giauri) — infidel, non-Muslim
• German: Kafir — infidel, non-Muslim
• Hausa: kāfìr̃ī — infidel, non-Muslim
• Hebrew: כּאפִר (kafír) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Hindi: काफ़िर (kāfir) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Hindi: काफिर (kāphir) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Hindi: गब्र (gabra) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Indonesian: kafir — infidel, non-Muslim
• Japanese: カーフィル (kāfiru) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Kazakh: кәпір (käpır) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Korean: 카피르 (kapireu) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Northern Kurdish: kafir — infidel, non-Muslim
• Kyrgyz: каапыр (kaapır) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Macedonian: ќафир (ḱafir) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Macedonian: ѓаур (ǵaur) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Malay: kafir — infidel, non-Muslim
• Malayalam: കാഫിർ (kāphiṟ) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Malayalam: കാഫിറ് (kāphiṟŭ) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Nepali: काफिर (kāphira) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Nogai: каьпир (käpir) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Nupe: káfìri — infidel, non-Muslim
• Pashto: کافر (kāfér) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Dari: کَافِر (kāfir) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Dari: گَبْر (gabr) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Iranian Persian: کافِر (kâfer) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Iranian Persian: گَبْر (gabr) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Polish: kafir — infidel, non-Muslim
• Portuguese: cafre — infidel, non-Muslim
• Rohingya: kafér — infidel, non-Muslim
• Russian: ка́фир (káfir) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Russian: кафи́р (kafír) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Russian: кя́фир (kjáfir) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Russian: кяфи́р (kjafír) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Russian: гяу́р (gjaúr) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Serbo-Croatian: кафир — infidel, non-Muslim
• Serbo-Croatian: kafir — infidel, non-Muslim
• Slovak: káfir — infidel, non-Muslim
• Spanish: cafre — infidel, non-Muslim
• Spanish: infiel — infidel, non-Muslim
• Swahili: kafiri — infidel, non-Muslim
• Swedish: kafir — infidel, non-Muslim
• Tajik: кофир (kofir) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Tajik: габр (gabr) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Tamil: காஃபிர் (kāfir) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Tatar: көфер (köfer) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Tatar: көферлек (köferlek) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Thai: กาเฟร — infidel, non-Muslim
• Thai: กาฟิร — infidel, non-Muslim
• Turkish: kâfir — infidel, non-Muslim
• Turkish: gâvur — infidel, non-Muslim
• Ottoman Turkish: كاور (gâvur) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Ottoman Turkish: كافر (kâfir) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Turkmen: kapyr — infidel, non-Muslim
• Turkmen: kapyrlyk — infidel, non-Muslim
• Turkmen: käfir — infidel, non-Muslim
• Ukrainian: кафі́р (kafír) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Ukrainian: кяфі́р (kjafír) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Urdu: کافِر (kāfir) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Uyghur: كاپىر (kapir) — infidel, non-Muslim
• Uzbek: kofir — infidel, non-Muslim
• Uzbek: gʻayridin — infidel, non-Muslim
• Yoruba: kèfèrí — infidel, non-Muslim