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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA disbeliever, a denier: someone who rejects or disbelieves in Allah or the tenets of Islam; or more broadly any non-Muslim. · Ellipsis of kafir corn.
Borrowed from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “denier, unbeliever”). Doublet of kaffir.
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