- Offensive.
- A Xhosa.
- often kaffir Used especially in southern Africa as a disparaging term for a Black person.
- Kafir A Nuristani.
- also kaffir Islam. An infidel.
[Arabic kāfir, infidel. See giaour.]
Kaffir
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Kaf·fir Kaf·ir (kăf'ər)  |
also n., pl., Kaffir, or -firs, also Kafir or -irs.
| Columbia Encyclopedia: Kafirs |
Kafirs or Kaffirs (both: kăf'ərz) [Arab.,=infidel], name applied by European settlers to the Xhosa branch of the Bantu-speaking people of S Africa. Originally used only for the inhabitants of the Transkeian Territories (then called Kaffraria), the name came to be commonly employed as a derogatory term for all black Africans. The South African government encouraged use of the term Bantu rather than Kafir or native.
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