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Kaffir (Arabic, Kâfir, an infidel)

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A name given to the Hottentots, who reject the Moslem faith. Kafiristan, in Central Asia, means “the country of the infidels.”

“The affinity of the Kafir tribes … including the Kafirs proper and the people of Congo, is based upon the various idioms spoken by them, the direct representatives of a common, but now extinct, mother tongue. This aggregate of languages is now conveniently known as … . the Bantu linguistic system.”—K. Johnston: Africa, p. 447.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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K.O.B. (i.e. the King’s Own Borderers)
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Kabibonokka (North - American Indian)
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Kaffir (Arabic, Kâfir, an infidel)
Kai-Omurs (the mighty Omurs)
Kai-anians
Kailyal
Kain Hens
Kaiser
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Kaleda (Sclavonic mythology)
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