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Categories: Anti-black racism in South Africa, South African English, Articles with short description, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Anti-African and anti-black slurs

kaffir kafir caffer caffre cafri

An offensive and insulting term for any Black African WordNet 3.0

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An offensive and insulting term for any Black African WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Kaffir, also spelled Cafri, is an exonym and an ethnic slur – the use of it in reference to black people being particularly common in South Africa. Wikipedia

An ethnic slur in South Africa referring to a black person Wikipedia Disambiguation

A slur used to refer to indigenous black people in South Africa; derived from the Arabic term for "unbeliever", i.e. pagan Wikidata

IS A

Black African

ethnic slur

PART OF

heathen

DESCRIBED BY SOURCE

The Nuttall Encyclopædia

DIFFERENT FROM

kafir

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