What does kaffir mean?
Kaffir means (countable, offensive) In Islamic contexts, a non-Muslim..
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/ˈkæfə/ · noun
(countable, offensive) In Islamic contexts, a non-Muslim..
He […] put me in imminent danger of my life, by telling the natives that I was a Caffer, and not a Mussulman.
… the Hambonaas, a nation quite different from the Kaffers, having a yellowish complexion […].
I rang the bell, and a smiling Kafir boy answered it.
If you ask a Kaffir why he does so-and-so, he will answer—"How can I tell? It has always been done by our forefathers."
I once heard him say to the gardener, 'Come along, son.' His wife scolded him saying, 'He's not son, don't call him son, he's a kaffir.'
"… and today here a white man is calling me a kaffir. This term that I absolutely resented." And that, says Nofomela, is his political motive.
Monkey see, monkey do ... which in this case refers to the baboons in Rhodesia - proves just how vulnerable the whities are in the hands of the kaffirs.
This man, seeing a white person enter, moved aside for her, but she saw Joss's eyes on her, and said in kitchen kaffir, ‘No, when you've finished.’
Use kaffir when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Kaffir means (countable, offensive) In Islamic contexts, a non-Muslim..
Common synonyms include caffer, kaffir corn, kafir corn, sorghum bicolor.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He […] put me in imminent danger of my life, by telling the natives that I was a Caffer, and not a Mussulman.
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