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  • noun Plural form of kafir.

Etymologies

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From the Arabic كفار (kuffār), the plural form of كافر (kāfir).

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Examples

  • The word kuffar appears to be an alternative spelling of kafir, an Arabic word meaning "unbeliever."

    www.startribune.com 2012

  • The word kuffar appears to be an alternative spelling of kafir, an Arabic word meaning "unbeliever."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2012

  • Using the Arabic word "kuffar", meaning "non-believers", a user called Resistance writes:

    Infidels Are Cool 2009

  • That he chooses to use the term kuffar, is not innocent as such. "

    unknown title 2009

  • His targets, he allegedly said, were the "kuffar" - an Arabic word for infidels or disbelievers of Islam

    NYT > Home Page By ROBBIE BROWN 2012

  • Justice Bongiorno said Benbrika taught his young followers that "the destruction of the 'kuffar' - Arabic for unbelievers - was an essential aspect of the Islamic religion".

    Religion News Blog 2009

  • Benbrika, a fan of Osama bin Laden, regarded the destruction of the "kuffar" - Arabic for "unbelievers" - as an essential aspect of the Islamic religion …

    Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami 2009

  • u said we take what our imam tells us about to blow up kuffar. now i know when u sed the word kuffar u trying to add that u know about islam.

    The Jawa Report 2009

  • Other participants boast of how their children threaten to kill "kuffar" [non-believers] and complain that the Shakespeare being taught in schools is "full of homosexuality, fornication and adultery."

    Archive 2008-06-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • Other participants boast of how their children threaten to kill "kuffar" [non-believers] and complain that the Shakespeare being taught in schools is "full of homosexuality, fornication and adultery."

    Read this and worry Not a sheep 2008

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