{"id":234,"date":"2026-01-29T09:59:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omoo.nl\/?p=234"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:59:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:59:53","slug":"on-the-arabic-kafara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/on-the-arabic-kafara\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Arabic &#8220;kafara&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kafara is the Arabic word describing &#8220;unbelief,&#8221; it is the noun form (form 1).  It describes a state of mind of unreflectiveness and an unwillingness to take responsibility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Serendipitously in the Dutch language you have a verb &#8220;kafferen&#8221; which has meanings of &#8220;to complain, to swear&#8221; which is interesting since Arabic is not one of the primary languages in Holland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are more cases like these and we will discuss them in time God-willing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kafara is the Arabic word describing &#8220;unbelief,&#8221; it is the noun form (form 1). It describes a state of mind of unreflectiveness and an unwillingness to take responsibility. Serendipitously in the Dutch language you have a verb &#8220;kafferen&#8221; which has meanings of &#8220;to complain, to swear&#8221; which is interesting since Arabic is not one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[25,42],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","tag-arabic","tag-kafferen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}