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kafir
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noun (pl=kuffar)
  1. (Islam) infidel, Infidel, pagan, non-believer; a non-Muslim aside from ahl al-kitab (Christians, Jews, etc.).
  2. (Islam) Infidel, pagan, non-believer; any non-Muslim.<ref>Shaykh Al-Islam ibn Taymiyyah (Rahimullah) v27 p264: "Whosoever does not forbid people from the deen of the Jews and Christians after the prophethood of the messenger Muhammad (saw) nor declares them kafir nor hates them, he is not a Muslim by the consensus of ALL Muslims, their scholars and the general public."</ref>
Kamba
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proper noun
  1. a Bantu people of Kenya.
  2. the language if this people.
  3. an extinct language of Brazil.
Kamilaroi
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proper noun
  1. An Australian Aboriginal people of New South Wales.
  2. Their language.
kanaka
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noun
  1. A person of Hawaiian descent.
Kannada
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proper noun
  1. The state language of southern state, Karnataka, in South India.
Karen
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proper noun
  1. (given name, female),the anglicized pronunciation of a Danish form of Catherine; first taken up as a given name in the U.S. in the 1930s, and quite popular in the English-speaking world from the 1950s to the 1970s.
  2. A group of languages of Myanmar and Thailand.
Kashmiri
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proper noun
  1. A person from Kashmir or of Kashmiri descent
  2. The language spoken in Kashmir
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to the people Kashmir or the Kashmiri language.
Kashubian
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proper noun
  1. A Slavic language spoken in the Pomerania, Pomeranian region of Poland.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to the Kashubian people and their language.
kaw
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noun
  1. A indian tribe, kansa
Kazakh
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noun
  1. A person from Kazakhstan or of Kazakh descent.
  2. The national language of Kazakhstan.
adjective
  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Kazakhstan, the Kazakh people or the Kazakh language.
ket
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noun (wikipedia, Bra-ket notation)
  1. (physics) A vector, in Hilbert space, that represents the state of a quantum mechanical system; the complex conjugate of a bra; a ket vector.
Khmer
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proper noun
  1. The national language of Cambodia.
Khoisan
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proper noun
  1. The group of Southern African indigenous people, comprising the Khoi and San. Indigenous to the semi-desert regions.
  2. The group of languages associated with the Khoisan including Nama, "Híµí£, !Kung, !Xũũ, Ju/"hoan, and "Kx"auÇ"ein.
Kikuyu
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proper noun
  1. a Bantu people of Kenya.
  2. the language of this people.
Kinyarwanda
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proper noun
  1. A Bantu language spoken in Rwanda.
Kirghiz
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proper noun
  1. A language of Kyrgyzstan.
  2. Turkish ethnic group in Kyrgyzstan.
Kiswahili
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noun
  1. Swahili, an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa.
Koine
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proper noun
  1. The "common" Greek language that developed and flourished between 300 BC and AD 300 (the time of the Roman Empire), and from which Modern Greek descended. It was based on the Attic and Ionian dialects of Ancient Greek.
Kongo
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proper noun
  1. A Bantu language of Central Africa.
Korean
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noun
  1. Official language of the people residing on the Korean Peninsula, and language of approximately 60 million people, in Asia, North America, and elsewhere.
  2. Designation given to the indigenous or naturalized people occupying the Korean Peninsula on the Asian continent, in either North Korea or South Korea.
adjective
  1. Of or related to the Asian Peninsula comprising North Korea and South Korea.
Kurd
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proper noun
  1. A member of the linguistically and culturally distinct pastoral and agricultural Islamic people who inhabit those parts of Syria, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and the former Soviet Union sometimes known as Kurdistan.
Kurdish
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proper noun
  1. Language of Kurdistan (In the Mesopotamia region, from the Zagros of mid-western Iran to the eastern extension of the chain of the Taurus Mountains).
adjective
  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language

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