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kafir Tweet Definition of kafir Like Definition of kafir on Facebook
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 Tweet Definition of Kamba Like Definition of Kamba on Facebook
proper noun 
  1. a Bantu people of Kenya.
  2. the language if this people.
  3. an extinct language of Brazil.
     
Kamilaroi Tweet Definition of Kamilaroi Like Definition of Kamilaroi on Facebook
proper noun 
  1. An Australian Aboriginal people of New South Wales.
  2. Their language.
     
kanaka Tweet Definition of kanaka Like Definition of kanaka on Facebook
noun 
  1. A person of Hawaiian descent.
     
Kannada Tweet Definition of Kannada Like Definition of Kannada on Facebook
proper noun 
  1. The state language of southern state, Karnataka, in South India.
     
Karen Tweet Definition of Karen Like Definition of Karen on Facebook
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 Tweet Definition of Kashmiri Like Definition of Kashmiri on Facebook
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 Tweet Definition of Kashubian Like Definition of Kashubian on Facebook
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 Tweet Definition of kaw Like Definition of kaw on Facebook
noun 
  1. A indian tribe, kansa
     
Kazakh Tweet Definition of Kazakh Like Definition of Kazakh on Facebook
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 Tweet Definition of ket Like Definition of ket on Facebook
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 Tweet Definition of Khmer Like Definition of Khmer on Facebook
proper noun 
  1. The national language of Cambodia.
     
Khoisan Tweet Definition of Khoisan Like Definition of Khoisan on Facebook
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, !XÅ©Å©, Ju/"hoan, and "Kx"auÇ�"ein.
     
Kikuyu Tweet Definition of Kikuyu Like Definition of Kikuyu on Facebook
proper noun 
  1. a Bantu people of Kenya.
  2. the language of this people.
     
Kinyarwanda Tweet Definition of Kinyarwanda Like Definition of Kinyarwanda on Facebook
proper noun 
  1. A Bantu language spoken in Rwanda.
     
Kirghiz Tweet Definition of Kirghiz Like Definition of Kirghiz on Facebook
proper noun 
  1. A language of Kyrgyzstan.
  2. Turkish ethnic group in Kyrgyzstan.
     
Kiswahili Tweet Definition of Kiswahili Like Definition of Kiswahili on Facebook
noun 
  1. Swahili, an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa.
     
Koine Tweet Definition of Koine Like Definition of Koine on Facebook
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 Tweet Definition of Kongo Like Definition of Kongo on Facebook
proper noun 
  1. A Bantu language of Central Africa.
     
Korean Tweet Definition of Korean Like Definition of Korean on Facebook
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 Tweet Definition of Kurd Like Definition of Kurd on Facebook
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 Tweet Definition of Kurdish Like Definition of Kurdish on Facebook
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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