See kafir on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2024 August 21, “Investigation Into Bangladeshi Preacher Amir Hamza’s Sermon in Singapore on 9 August 2024”, in Ministry of Home Affairs (Singapore):",
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"ref": "1914, Omar Orlando Churchill, Forage and Silage Crops for Oklahoma, page 10:",
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"ref": "1918, Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, page 568:",
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"word": "kafirize"
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"word": "kafirness"
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"word": "Kafirism"
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"ref": "2024 August 21, “Investigation Into Bangladeshi Preacher Amir Hamza’s Sermon in Singapore on 9 August 2024”, in Ministry of Home Affairs (Singapore):",
"text": "In his sermon, Amir Hamza espoused extremist and segregationist views. He inferred that non-Muslims are “kafir” (infidels).",
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"ref": "1914, Omar Orlando Churchill, Forage and Silage Crops for Oklahoma, page 10:",
"text": "Kafir makes better forage than the duras.",
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"ref": "1918, Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, page 568:",
"text": "Kafir is confined practically to the Southwestern States where, owing to its drought resistant character, it has become an important crop.",
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"sense": "infidel, non-Muslim",
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"word": "カーフィル"
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"qualifier": "in general senses",
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"(in general senses) unbeliever, non-believer, infidel"
]
},
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"id:Islam"
],
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"a kafir, a disbeliever, a denier, someone who denies the truths from Allah; or more broadly any non-Muslim."
],
"links": [
[
"kafir",
"kafir#English"
],
[
"disbeliever",
"disbeliever"
],
[
"denier",
"denier"
],
[
"Allah",
"Allah"
],
[
"non-Muslim",
"non-Muslim"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Islam) a kafir, a disbeliever, a denier, someone who denies the truths from Allah; or more broadly any non-Muslim."
],
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"Islam",
"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"id:Christianity"
],
"glosses": [
"non-Christian"
],
"links": [
[
"Christianity",
"Christianity"
],
[
"Christian",
"Christian"
]
],
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"(Christianity) non-Christian"
],
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"Christianity"
]
},
{
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"id:Christianity"
],
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"gentile, non-Jew"
],
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[
"Christianity",
"Christianity"
],
[
"gentile",
"gentile"
],
[
"Jew",
"Jew"
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"(Christianity, Jewish) gentile, non-Jew"
],
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"Jewish"
],
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"Christianity"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈkafir/",
"tags": [
"Standard-Indonesian"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈka.fɪr]",
"tags": [
"Standard-Indonesian"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-afir"
}
],
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}
{
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{
"word": "kafir harbi"
},
{
"word": "kafir Majusi"
},
{
"word": "kafir muahad"
},
{
"word": "kafir zimmi"
}
],
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"4": "",
"5": "denier, unbeliever"
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"name": "bor"
}
],
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"form": "کافير",
"tags": [
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]
},
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"plural"
]
}
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"ku": "-",
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{
"categories": [
"Malay entries with incorrect language header",
"Malay lemmas",
"Malay nouns",
"Malay offensive terms",
"Malay religious slurs",
"Malay terms borrowed from Arabic",
"Malay terms derived from Arabic",
"Malay terms derived from the Arabic root ك ف ر",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Malay/fir",
"Rhymes:Malay/ir",
"Rhymes:Malay/ir/2 syllables",
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],
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[
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"religious"
],
[
"slur",
"slur"
],
[
"kafir",
"kafir#English"
],
[
"disbeliever",
"disbeliever"
],
[
"denier",
"denier"
],
[
"Allah",
"Allah"
],
[
"non-Muslim",
"non-Muslim"
]
],
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"(Islam, offensive, religious slur) A kafir, a disbeliever, a denier: someone who denies the truths from Allah; or more broadly any non-Muslim."
],
"tags": [
"offensive",
"slur"
],
"topics": [
"Islam",
"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
}
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{
"ipa": "[ka.fe(r)]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-fir"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ir"
}
],
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}
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"form": "no-table-tags",
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"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "kafir",
"source": "declension",
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"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
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"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "kafiry",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "kafira",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "kafirów",
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"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "kafirowi",
"source": "declension",
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"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "kafirom",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "kafira",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "kafirów",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "kafirem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "kafirami",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "kafirze",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "kafirach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "kafirze",
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"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
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"form": "kafirzy",
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"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
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},
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],
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{
"categories": [
"Pages with 5 entries",
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"Polish lemmas",
"Polish links with manual fragments",
"Polish links with redundant alt parameters",
"Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
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"Polish nouns",
"Polish personal nouns",
"Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Rhymes:Polish/afir",
"Rhymes:Polish/afir/2 syllables",
"pl:Islam"
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"kafir"
],
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[
"kafir",
"kafir#English"
]
],
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"(Islam) kafir"
],
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"masculine",
"person"
],
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"Islam",
"lifestyle",
"religion"
],
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]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈka.fir/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-afir"
}
],
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}
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