/kaf"euhr, kay"feuhr, kah"-/ , n. , pl. Kafirs , ( esp. collectively ) Kafir .
1. Also called Nuristani . a member of an Indo-European people of Nuristan.
2. ( l.c. ) Islam. an infidel or unbeliever.
3. Kaffir (def. 1).
4. ( l.c. ) Also, kaffir . Also called kafir corn . a grain sorghum, Sorghum bicolor caffrorum, having stout, short-jointed, leafy stalks, introduced into the U.S. from southern Africa.
[ 1795-1805; ]