Kaffir Definition

kafər
kaffirs
noun
kaffirs
A member of any of several Bantu-speaking peoples of S Africa.
Webster's New World
A Xhosa.
American Heritage

Xhosa.

Webster's New World
Used especially in southern Africa as a disparaging term for a black person.
American Heritage

Kafir.

Webster's New World
Synonyms:
pronoun

(South Africa) An offensive term for a black person.

Wiktionary
A non-believer.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Kaffir

Noun

Singular:
Kaffir
Plural:
kaffirs

Origin of Kaffir

  • Arabic kāfir infidel (applied to the non-Muslim peoples of southern Africa originally by Muslim merchants and slave-traders operating in the region before the arrival of Europeans) giaour

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Arabic كفار (kaffār, “infidel”) or كافر (kāfir, “unbeliever”), both from كفر (káfara, “to cover, to hide”).

    From Wiktionary

Kaffir Sentence Examples

  • The Kaffir chief who had accompanied him to England joined the enemy; and many of his converts showed that his efforts on their behalf had effected no change in their character.

  • Soon transferred to the 12th Lancers, he saw active service with that regiment in the Kaffir war of 1852-53.

  • When work restarted after the war, the mine owners offered the Kaffir workmen little more than half the wages paid in 1898; but this effort at economy was abandoned, and the old rates of pay were restored in January 1903.

  • A strong beer, brewed from Kaffir corn, is a favourite drink.

  • This act provided for the disarmament of natives, and had The already been put in force successfully among some "Sun" of the Kaffir tribes on the Cape eastern frontier.

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Words Starting With

KKAKAF

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RIRFIR

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