kafir

See also: kâfir

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَافِر‎ (kāfir, “denier, unbeliever”).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) enPR: käʹfîr, IPA(key): /ˈkɑːfɪə/

Noun

kafir (plural kuffar or kafirs)

  1. (Islam) An infidel, a non-believer: a non-Muslim who is not one of ahl al-kitab (Christians, Jews, etc) or who does not do good deeds without expectation of reward, or more broadly any non-Muslim.

Usage notes
  • Some people use the term to refer to any non-Muslim,[1] but others consider this an error.[2][3] The term is sometimes derogatory.[4][5][6]

Derived terms

Translations

See also

References
  1. Shaykh Al-Islam ibn Taymiyyah, v. 27, p. 264: “Whosoever does not forbid people from the deen of the Jews and Christians after the prophethood of the messenger Muhammad (saw) nor declares them kafir nor hates them, he is not a Muslim by the consensus of ALL Muslims, their scholars and the general public.”
  2. Ahmed Affi, Hassan Affi Contemporary Interpretation of Islamic Law (Troubador Publishing Ltd 2014, →ISBN), page 12
  3. Asghar Ali Engineer, Islam in Contemporary World (Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd 2007, →ISBN), xvi
  4. Rajan, Julie (30 January 2015) Al Qaeda’s Global Crisis: The Islamic State, Takfir and the Genocide of Muslims‎, Routledge, page cii
  5. Bunt, Gary (2009) Muslims‎, The Other Press, page ccxxiv
  6. Pruniere, Gerard (1 January 2007) Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide‎, Cornell University Press, page xvi

Anagrams

French

Noun

kafir m or f (plural kafirs)

  1. Alternative form of kâfir

Indonesian

Noun

kafir (plural kafir-kafir, first-person possessive kafirku, second-person possessive kafirmu, third-person possessive kafirnya)

  1. unbeliever, non-believer, infidel

Polish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈka.fʲir/

Noun

kafir m pers

  1. (Islam) kafir

Declension
declension of kafir
singular plural
nominative kafir kafirzy
genitive kafira kafirów
dative kafirowi kafirom
accusative kafira kafirów
instrumental kafirem kafirami
locative kafirze kafirach
vocative kafirze kafirzy

Further reading
  • kafir in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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