| 词汇 | kaffir |
| 词源 | kaffir. Long a derogatory term used by whites to describe blacks in Africa, kaffir derives from the time when Arab slavers first came to the east coast of Africa. The slavers called the peo- ple there qafirs, “unbelievers,” because they had not yet accepted Islam, and qafir became the pejorative kaffir. |
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