Kaffir

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Kaffir and similar may refer to:

• Kaffir lime, a kind of lime native to southeast Asia.
• Kafir, an Islamic term referring to those who reject Islam
• Sunbeam Kaffir, an engine built by the Sunbeam car company
• Kefir or Kephir, a fermented milk drink from the Caucasus region
• African wildcat, formerly known as the Kaffir cat

Africa

• Kaffir (racial term), term used in South Africa to refer to a black person; originally a neutral designation now often an ethnic slur
• Fanagalo, a Zulu-based pidgin language once referred to as Kitchen Kaffir
• Kaffraria or British Kaffraria, a former designation for King William's Town and East London, South Africa

Afghanistan

• Kafiristan, the historic name for the Nuristan Province in Afghanistan
• The Nuristani people descendants of the Hindukush Kafir people
• The Nuristani languages once called Kafiiri or Kafiristani
• Kafir harp

South Asia

• Sri Lanka Kaffir people, an ethnic group
• Sri Lanka Kaffir language, a creole spoken by that people

Botany

• Kaffir lime, a variety of lime fruit native to Indonesia also known as a makrut lime
• Kaffir lily (disambiguation), one of two flowers found in southern Africa:
  • Clivia miniata
  • Hesperantha coccinea
• Kaffir or kaffir corn, another name for the grain sorghum
• Kaffir boom (Erythrina lysistemon), a species of tree in the Fabaceae family

See also

• Kefir