infidel

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) First attested 1460, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French infidèle, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin īnfidēlis (“unfaithful”), from in- (“not”) + fidēlis (“faithful”). See fidelity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.fə.dl̩/, /ˈɪn.fə.ˌdɛl/

Noun

infidel (plural infidels)

1. (now usually derogatory) One who does not believe in a certain religion.
   • Vicesimus Knox

     The infidel writer is a great enemy to society.

   • 2005, George W. Braswell, Islam and America: Answers to the 31 Most-asked Questions (page 33)

     Some Muslims are taught that non-Muslims are infidels and are to be shunned.

2. (now usually derogatory) One who does not believe in a certain principle.
3. (now usually derogatory) One with no religious beliefs.

Synonyms

• unbeliever
• nonbeliever, non-believer
• disbeliever
• (one with no religious beliefs): atheist

Related terms

• fidelity

Translations

non-believer

• Albanian: qafir m
• Arabic: كَافِر (kāfir)
• Azerbaijani: kafir (az)
• Bashkir: кафыр (kafır) (in Islam)
• Bengali: কাফির (kaphir)
• Bulgarian: неверник (bg) m (nevernik)
• Catalan: infidel (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不信神的 (bù xìnshén de)

• Czech: nevěřící m
• Danish: vantro c
• Dutch: ongelovige (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: malkredulo
• Finnish: vääräuskoinen (fi), pakana (fi), uskoton (fi)
• French: infidèle (fr) m or f, incroyant (fr) m
• German: Ungläubiger (de) m, Ungläubige (de) f
• Greek: άπιστος (el) (ápistos)
• Hebrew: כּוֹפֵר (he) m (kofér), אֶפִּיקוֹרֶס (he) m (epikóres), אֶפִּיקוֹרוֹס (he) m (epikóros)
• Hindi: नास्तिक (hi) m (nāstik), काफ़िर m (kāfir)
• Indonesian: kafir (id), keparat (id)
• Irish: neamhchreidmheach, ainchreidmheach m
• Italian: infedele (it) m or f
• Japanese: 不信者 (ふしんじゃ, fushinja)
• Kazakh: кәпір (käpır)
• Korean: 불신자 (bulsinja)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: ,

  Sorani: ,

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• Kyrgyz: каапыр (ky) (kaapır)
• Latin: infidelis m or f
• Malay: kafir
• Maori: kaiwhakaponokore
• Pashto: کافر (ps) (kāfér)
• Persian: کافر (fa) (kâfar)
• Polish: niewierny (pl) m
• Portuguese: infiel (pt) m or f
• Romanian: necredincios (ro) m
• Russian: неве́рный (ru) m (nevérnyj), неве́рующий (ru) m (nevérujuščij)
• Sanskrit: धन्य (sa) m (dhanya)
• Scottish Gaelic: neo-chreidmheach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: неверник m, невјерник m

  Roman: nevernik (sh) m, nevjernik (sh) m

• Spanish: infiel m or f, descreído (es) m, impío (es) m
• Swedish: otrogen (sv)
• Tajik: кофир (kofir)
• Tatar: көфер (köfer)
• Turkish: kâfir (tr)
• Turkmen: kapyr
• Urdu: کافر m (kāfir)
• Uyghur: كاپىر (kapir)
• Uzbek: kofir (uz)
• Yiddish: אַפּיקורס m (apikoyres)

Anagrams

• infield, infiled

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin īnfidēlis (“unfaithful”).

Adjective

infidel m or f (masculine and feminine plural infidels)

1. unfaithful

   Antonym: fidel

Noun

infidel m or f (plural infidels)

1. infidel

Related terms

• infidelitat

Further reading

• “infidel” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “infidel”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “infidel” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “infidel” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.