What does this mean? heard it said today!!!?

Question

what does KAFFIR mean?? i heard a group of muslims shouting it at a white boy.

thanks

Kaffirs rule??

Answer 1

The word kāfir is the active participle of the root K-F-R "to cover". As a pre-Islamic term it described farmers burying seeds in the ground, covering them with soil while planting. Thus, the word kāfir implies the meaning "a person who hides or covers". In Islamic parlance, a kāfir is a word used to describe a person who rejects Islamic faith, i.e. "hides or covers [viz., the truth]".[1]

Kafirs rule

Answer 2

Kaffirs = non Muslims

Answer 3

Kaffir is an arabic word meaning non-believer. It was assimilated into the Afrkaans language as an insult to native (black) africans as the seetlers had heard this term used by arab traders.

Answer 4

kaffir means that a person who don't believe in god...muslims use it for the people who are not muslim...on the other hand,i don't like this word...i'm muslim but i've never used it.

Answer 5

Read up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaffir

Answer 6

This word comes from an African tribe who were known as Kaffirs. This name was adopted by the boers to refer to any one who was black.

Answer 7

that was nothing nice. it is an insult

=an Arabic word meaning an unbeliever, a person who hides, denies, or covers the truth, used to describe an unbeliever, non-Muslims, a Muslim of a differing sect, or an apostate from Islam. It is usually translated into English as "infidel" or "unbeliever".

Be careful who you call Kafir "because only Allah knows who is truly a rejector of faith and who is merely a misguided person"

Answer 8

'Kaffir' is a highly derogatory Arabic term used to refer to non-Muslims and white persons ,like calling 'honkie' but it literally means 'savage' and refers to infidels.

Answer 9

the first time i heard it, it was in the movie lethal weapon 2. a bunch of south african bad guys (caucasian) called danny glover (murtaugh) a "kaffir". i assumed it was yet another substitute for the "n" word.

Answer 10

I don,t know cos its when my Aunt lived in South Africa
they referred to Black people as Kaffirs.
I don,t think it was meant to be insulting but when she
came back home and lived with us for a while, when
she saw our neighbour she described him as the 'Kaffer
next door'. My mom was horrified and told her we don,t talk
about our friends like that because they are a nice family.
Equally, my aunt said she did not mean to offend.