K-P-R
K-P-R is a Semitic root, in Arabic and Hebrew rendered as K-F-R.
The basic meaning of the root is "to cover", but it is used in the sense "to conceal" and hence "to deny", and its notability derives from its use for religious heresy or apostasy in both Islam and Judaism.
Etymology
and Mihai Dat, in a study of triconsonantal Semitic roots, noted a connection of X-p-''r, p''-r-X and p-X-r roots with meanings like "break off", "part," "cut", "shut off", "remove", "break up", "hide", "expel", suggesting a Proto-Semitic biconsontal root pr meaning "cut, divide." It is first attested in the Akkadian verb kaparu, with D-stem kupparu.Amharic
- Qofere dug
Arabic
Concepts
- Kufr, Kefirah — negation of the faith; disbelief
- Kāfir, pl. ' and ', Kofer, pl. Kofrim — "coverer" — unbeliever; "a person who hides or covers the truth"
- Takfīr — excommunication
- Mukaffir — the act which precipitates takfīr
- Kafare — sentence for a crime, for example lashes for adultery, used in religious issues
- Kafr — village
- Kaffarah ; Kofer — compensation for damages in Quranic, Talmudic and Mishnaic tort law.
Sunni Hadith
Hebrew
- Kofer-nefesh."The price of a life", "a ransom", compared to Teutonic Weregild.
- The poll tax of a half shekel to be paid by every male above twenty years at the census, as described in.
- The spelling "rtl=yes" can mean an unbeliever, similar to the Arabic kafir, see Apostasy in Judaism, Heresy in Orthodox Judaism
- The main meaning of the root rtl=yes is "atone". For example, in rtl=yes, the Day of Atonement.
- Kfar — village
- Kaparah — atonement for a transgression, or compensation through monetary or spiritual means. See Kaparot
- Yom Kippur — the day of atonement