Usually means: Offensive term for black African.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Kaffir:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. Kaffir, kaffir: Merriam-Webster
  2. Kaffir: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Kaffir, kaffir: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Kaffir: Collins English Dictionary
  5. kaffir: Vocabulary.com
  6. kaffir: Wordnik
  7. Kaffir, kaffir: Wiktionary
  8. Kaffir: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. kaffir: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Kaffir: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Kaffir, kaffir: Dictionary.com
  12. kaffir: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Kaffir (Islam), Kaffir (disambiguation), Kaffir (ethnic slur), Kaffir (racial term), Kaffir: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Kaffir: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. kaffir: Rhymezone
  16. Kaffir: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. Kaffir: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. kaffir: FreeDictionary.org
  19. kaffir: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Kaffir: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. kaffir: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  22. Kaffir: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kaffir: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Kaffir (disambiguation), Kaffir: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Kaffir (disambiguation), kaffir: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Kaffir (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. kaffir, kaffir: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See kaffirs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Kaffir)

noun:  (countable, offensive) In Islamic contexts, a non-Muslim.
noun:  (countable, offensive) A member of the Nguni people of southern Africa, especially a Xhosa.
noun:  (countable, South Africa, Rhodesia, ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory) A black person.
noun:  (uncountable, now historical, offensive) A language spoken by the Nguni peoples of southern Africa, especially Xhosa.
noun:  (finance, slang, historical) South African mining shares
noun:  (uncountable) Ellipsis of kaffir corn. [The cultivated species of sorghum, Sorghum bicolor, used as a food for people and animals and in ethanol production.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of kaffir [(countable, offensive) In Islamic contexts, a non-Muslim.]

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