Kaffir
/ˈkafə
/ /ˈkafɪə /noun
1 offensive, chiefly South African An insulting term for a black African.
2 (kaffir or kafir) offensive An insulting term used by some Muslims for non-Muslims.
3 (Kafir) chiefly historical A member of a people of the Hindu Kush mountains of NE Afghanistan, who did not convert to Islam until the 19th century.
Origin
Late 16th century (in Kaffir (sense 2)): from Arabic kāfir 'infidel', from kafara 'not believe'.
- unabating
- unable
- Unabomber
- unabridged
- unabsorbed
- unacademic
- unaccented
- unacceptability
- unacceptable
- unacceptableness
- unacceptably
- unaccommodating
- unaccompanied
- unaccomplished
- unaccountability
- unaccountable
- unaccountableness
- unaccountably
- unaccounted
- unaccredited
- unaccustomed
- unaccustomedly
- unachievable
- unacknowledged
- una corda