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kafir.

unbeliever, non-believer, infidel

5 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkafir/Standard-Indonesian[ˈka.fɪr]Standard-Indonesian

  1. unbeliever, non-believer, infidel

  2. a kafir, a disbeliever, a denier, someone who denies the truths from Allah; or more broadly any non-Muslim

  3. non-Christian

  4. gentile, non-Jew

    Jewish
Where this word comes from

From Malay kafir, from Classical Malay kafir (“infidel”), from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “denier, unbeliever”). * The sense “non-Jew” is a semantic loan from Hebrew גּוֹי (goi, “nation”) and semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἐθνικός (ethnikós).

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