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kafr كَفْر , pl. kufūr
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ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√KFR
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small village, hamlet – WehrCowan1979.
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Probably from Aram kaprā ′village’, from protSem *kapar‑ ′village’.
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▪ DRS 10 (2012)#KPR-2: Akk kapr‑, Hbr kāpār, koper, oEmpAram kpr, JP kaprā ‘village’.
▪ Unrelated to ↗kafara ‘to hide; (but also to ′be an unbeliever’?) and ↗kāfūr ‘camphor’.
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▪ DRS 10 (2012)#KPR: »L’arabe est probablement un emprunt à l’araméen.«
▪ Huehnergard2011: from Aram kaprā ‘village’, from Sem *kapar ‘village’.
▪ Huehnergard2011 derives the figurative meaning of the vb. kafara, ‘to be infidel’, not from the vb.’s basic value ‘to hide, conceal’ but from kafr, the ‘infidel’ being, originally, the *‘villager’. For further discussion, see ↗kāfir.
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▪ Kluge2002: Ge Kaff ‘awful hole, godforsaken place’ (C19), from Rotwelsch, from Romani gāw ‘village’, influenced by older Rotwelsch kefar ‘village’, from WYid kefar, from Hbr kāp̄ār ‘village’.
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Derivational situation not clear yet. Should Huehnergard2011 be right in connecting ‘infidelity’ to ‘village’ then the following items may be derived from kafr :

► kafara, i (kufr, kufrān, kufūr), vb. I, to be irreligious, be an infidel, not to believe: denom. from kāfir or kufr (?).
► kaffara, vb. II, to make an infidel, seduce to unbelief: caus., denom. from kāfir or kufr. – For another value see ↗kafara.
► ʔakfara, vb. IV, to make an infidel; to call an infidel, accuse of infidelity: caus., denom. from kāfir or kufr.

► BP#3044C kufr, kufrān, n., unbelief, infidelity.
► kaffār, n., infidel, unbeliever: ints.
► takfīr, n., seduction to infidelity; charge of unbelief: vn. II. – For another value see ↗kafara.
► BP#3646C kāfir, pl. ‑ūn, kuffār, kafaraẗ, kifār, adj./n., irreligious, unbelieving; unbeliever, infidel, atheist; ungrateful: PA I (but see "Discussion").

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