Kaffir
英 ['k?f?]
美
- n. 卡菲爾人
中文詞源
Kaffir 卡菲爾
對非洲黑人的蔑稱，來自阿拉伯語kafir,異教徒，否認神存在的人，來自kafara,否認，隱藏。穆斯林對非伊斯蘭教徒的稱呼，尤其是基督徒，后英國人又借用該詞指南非黑人，含較強冒犯意。
英文詞源
- Kaffir (n.)
- 1790, from Arabic kafir "unbeliever, infidel, impious wretch," with a literal sense of "one who does not admit the blessings of God," from kafara "to cover up, conceal, deny, blot out." Technically, "non-Muslim," but in Ottoman times it came to be used almost exclusively for "Christian." Early English missionaries used it as an equivalent of "heathen" to refer to Bantus in South Africa (1792), from which use it came generally to mean "South African black" regardless of ethnicity, and to be a term of abuse since at least 1934.
雙語例句
- 1. The direct ancestor of the modern cat was the Kaffir cat of ancient Egypt.
- 現代貓的直系原種是古埃及的卡菲爾貓。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Boil the thin coconut milk with lemon grass , kaffir leaves, shallot and galanga.
- 把椰漿煮滾,加入藍姜,檸檬葉, 香茅和小蔥頭.
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