Kafiri

NOUN
  1. a Dardic language spoken by the Kafir in northeastern Afghanistan
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  • And yesterday I saw Kafiristan on the television, and it's a major Taliban stronghold ... Michael Caine Reflects On His 'Hollywood' Career
  • And here, this scene is fairly late in the film where, in fact, you have made it to Kafiristan. Michael Caine Reflects On His 'Hollywood' Career
  • From this originated the name Kafiristan ( "country of infidels"), applied to the region north of the Punjaub of India and south of the Hindu-Kush The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
  • The pair of rogues planned to become kings of a backward country called Kafiristan, north of Afghanistan. Films of Michael Caine #27: The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
  • Meanwhile, the languages of the Kafiri-Nuristani and Dardic language families, spoken in northeastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, have forms of Indo-Aryan that are considered earlier than their counterparts in Avestan and the RgVeda (Witzel 1995a: The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis
  • Meanwhile, the languages of the Kafiri-Nuristani and Dardic language families, spoken in northeastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, have forms of Indo-Aryan that are considered earlier than their counterparts in Avestan and the RgVeda (Witzel 1995a: The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis
  • The Hausas refused to be federated with southerners and other non-Muslims whom they considered "Kafiri". Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • For Kochhar (2000: 186, 222) "non-RgVedic Aryans" (presumably he means speakers of Dardic or Kafiri languages) arrived around 2000 (or 1700) BC, to be followed by the "actual RgVedic people" in around 1400 BC. The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis
  • But very funny enough, we - so we're going to be kings of Kafiristan, I remember saying. Michael Caine Reflects On His 'Hollywood' Career
  • It was until then known as Kafiristan -- land of the infidels -- and still battles a reputation for insecurity and backwardness. Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
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