Kaffir
Kaffir or Kafir may refer to:
Ethnicity and religion
- Kafir, a term for a non-Muslim
- Kaffir (racial term), an ethnic slur used in South Africa
- The Nuristani people, an ethnic group of Pakistan and Afghanistan
- Sri Lanka Kaffir people, an ethnic group
Languages
- Fanagalo, a Zulu-based pidgin language once referred to as Kitchen Kaffir
- Sri Lanka Kaffir language, a creole spoken by that people
- Kafiiri or Kafiristani, terms for the Nuristani languages of the Hindu Kush
Places
- Kaffraria or British Kaffraria, a former designation for King William's Town and East London, South Africa
- Kafir, Idlib, a village in Syria
- Kafiristan, the historic name for the Nuristan Province in Afghanistan
- Kaffrine, a city in Senegal
Plants
- Kaffir lime, a variety of lime fruit native to Indonesia also known as a makrut lime
- Kaffir lily (disambiguation), one of two flowers found in southern Africa:
- Kafir, kaffir or kaffircorn, another name for the grain sorghum
- Kaffir boom (Erythrina lysistemon), a species of tree in the family Fabaceae
Other uses
- Kaafir (Pakistani TV series), a 2011 television series
- Kaafir (Indian TV series), a 2019 Indian web television series
- Kafir harp
- Sunbeam Kaffir, an engine built by the Sunbeam car company
- African wildcat, formerly known as the Kaffir cat
- Kaffir-D Stone, the alpha form of gypsum (calcium sulphate hemihydrate; (CaSO4)2H2O) used in the manufacture of dentures.
See also