كفر

From the root ك ف ر‎ (k-f-r).

كَفَرَ • (kafara) I, non-past يَكْفُرُ‎‎ (yakfuru)

1. (intransitive or transitive with بِ‎) to disbelieve (in), to close oneself off to
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:212:

     ‏زُيِّنَ لِلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٱ ٱلْحَيَاةُ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَيَسْخَرُونَ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَالَّذِينَ ٱتَّقَوْا فَوْقَهُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَامَةِ وَٱللّٰهُ يَرْزُقُ مَنْ يَشَاءُ بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ‎

     zuyyina lillaḏīna kafarū l-ḥayātu d-dunyā wayasḵarūna mina llaḏīna ʔāmanū wāllaḏīna ttaqaw fawqahum yawma l-qiyāmati wal-lāhu yarzuqu man yašāʔu biḡayri ḥisābin

     Beautified is the life of this world for those who disbelieve, and they mock at those who believe. But those who fear [Allah] are above them on the Day of Resurrection, and Allah begifts whom He wills without account.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:256:

     ‏لَا إِكْرَاهَ فِي ٱلدِّينِ ۖ قَدْ تَبَيَّنَ ٱلرُّشْدُ مِنَ ٱلْغَيِّ ۚ فَمَنْ يَكْفُرْ بِٱلطَّاغُوتِ وَيُؤْمِنْ بِٱللَّهِ فَقَدِ ٱسْتَمْسَكَ بِٱلْعُرْوَةِ ٱلْوُثْقَىٰ لَا ٱنْفِصَامَ لَهَا ۗ وَٱللَّهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ‎

     lā ʾikrāha fī d-dīni qad tabayyana r-rušdu mina l-ḡayyi faman yakfur bi-ṭ-ṭāḡūti wayuʾmin bi-l-lahi faqadi stamsaka bi-l-ʿurwati l-wuṯqā lā nfiṣāma lahā wal-lahu samīʿun ʿalīmun

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2. (transitive or with بِ‎) to be ungrateful
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:152:

     ‏فَٱذْكُرُونِي أَذْكُرْكُمْ وَٱشْكُرُوا لِي وَلَا تَكْفُرُونِ‎

     faḏkurūnī ʔaḏkurkum waškurū lī walā takfurūni

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3. (construed with بِ‎ (bi)) to disclaim association with, to renounce
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 35:14:

     ‏إِن تَدْعُوهُمْ لَا يَسْمَعُوا دُعَاءَكُمْ وَلَوْ سَمِعُوا مَا ٱسْتَجَابُوا لَكُمْۖ وَيَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَامَةِ يَكْفُرُونَ بِشِرْكِكُمْۚ وَلَا يُنَبِّئُكَ مِثْلُ خَبِيرٍ‎

     ʔin tadʕūhum lā yasmaʕū duʕāʔakum walaw samiʕū mā stajābū lakum wayawma l-qiyāmati yakfurūna biširkikum walā yunabbiʔuka miṯlu ḵabīrin

     If you invoke them they will not hear your invocation, and even if they heard they cannot respond to you, and on the Day of Resurrection they will forswear your polytheism, and none can inform you like the One who is all-aware.

• (to disbelieve): آمَنَ‎ (ʔāmana)
• (to be ungrateful): شَكَرَ‎ (šakara)

كَفَرَ • (kafara) I, non-past يَكْفُرُ‎ or يَكْفِرُ‎‎ (yakfuru or yakfiru)

1. to cover, hide

كُفْر • (kufr) m

1. verbal noun of كَفَرَ (kafara) (form I)
   1. disbelief; disacknowledgment
   2. ingratitude

• → Azerbaijani: küfr
• → English: kufr
• → Indonesian: kufur
• → Northern Kurdish: kufir, kifir, kifr, kufr
• → Ottoman Turkish: كفر‎ (küfr)
  • Turkish: küfür
  • Armenian: քֆուր (kʿfur), քյուֆյուր (kʿyufyur), քիֆիր (kʿifir)
• → Swahili: kufuru

كَفْر • (kafr) m

1. verbal noun of كَفَرَ (kafara) (form I)
2. darkness, blackness
3. earth, dust
4. grave, sepulcher

كَفَّرَ • (kaffara) II, non-past يُكَفِّرُ‎‎ (yukaffiru)

1. (religion) to expiate, do penance, atone

   ‏كفّر عن ذنوبه‎ ― He atoned for his sins.

2. to forgive, grant pardon
3. (religion) to accuse of infidelity, charge with unbelief
4. (religion) to make an infidel, seduce to unbelief
5. (dated) to cover, hide

Borrowed from Aramaic כַּפְרָא‎ /‏ ܟܰܦܪܳܐ‎ (kap̄rā, “village, open town, unfortified town”), from Akkadian 𒅗𒀊𒊒 (kaprum, “farm, village; a settlement outside of a city”), considered to represent a word particular to the non-Akkadian “Mari language”, that is to be formed either in the unknown East Semitic or the unknown Amorite language spoken there. Probably originally meaning an agricultural storage-room, doublet of غَفْر‎ (ḡafr), related to the meaning of “covering” connecting the roots غ ف ر‎ (ḡ-f-r), כ־פ־ר‎ (k-p-r). Compare Hebrew כְּפָר‎ (kp̄ār, “village”).

كَفْر • (kafr) m (plural كُفُور‎ (kufūr))

1. open, town, village, suburb
   • 7th century CE, Al-ʾAdab al-Mufrad, 30:42:

     ‏لَا تَسْكُنِ الْكُفُورَ، فَإِنَّ سَاكِنَ الْكُفُورِ كَسَاكِنِ الْقُبُورِ‎

     lā taskuni l-kufūra, faʔinna sākina l-kufūri kasākini l-qubūri

     Don’t dwell in the suburbs, for he who dwells in the suburbs is like a dweller of the graves.

Not retained anymore except in place-names.

Borrowed from Aramaic כּוּפְרָא‎ / ܟܘܦܪܐ‎ (kūp̄rā, “pitch, tar; asphalt”), from Akkadian 𒇒𒌓𒀀 (kupru, “bitumen, pitch”), from Akkadian 𒅗𒉺𒊒 (kapāru, “to smear or daub on”). Doublet of غُفْرَان‎ (ḡufrān). Compare Old Armenian կուպր (kupr), a Semitic borrowing.

كُفْر • (kufr) m

1. pitch, tar

Borrowed from English cover.

كَفَر • (kavar, kafar) m (plural كفرات‎ (kavarāt, kafarāt))

1. (electronics) cover, case

• “kpr”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “kpwr”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “كفر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 476–477
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 150
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 281
• Freytag, Georg (1837), “كفر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 46–47
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “كفر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 913–914
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “كفر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2620–2621
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “كفر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 890
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887), “كفر”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, pages 585–586
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “كفر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 975
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “كفر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1110

From English cover. Doublet of كڤر‎ (kavar).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkafar/

كفر • (kafar) m (plural كفرات‎ (kafarāt))

1. tire, tyre
2. vehicle’s wheel

From Arabic كَفَرَ‎ (kafara).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkafar/

كفر • (kafar) (form I, non-past يكفر‎)

1. to disbelieve

From Arabic كُفْر‎ (kufr).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkufur/

كفر • (kufur) m

1. apostasy
2. infidelity