Etymology

kafir

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Today it means: A disbeliever, a denier: someone who rejects or disbelieves in Allah or the tenets of Islam; or more broadly any non-Muslim. Full definition →

Arabic كَافِر
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  1. Arabic · borrowed fromكَافِر“denier, unbeliever”
  2. English todaykafir

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.