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K-P-R is aSemitic root, in Arabic and Hebrew rendered asK-F-R (Arabic:ك-ف-ر;Hebrew:כ-פ-ר).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 religiousheresy orapostasy (as it were describing the "concealment" of religious truth) in bothIslam andJudaism.
Georges Bohas and Mihai Dat, in a study oftriconsonantal Semitic roots, noted a connection of X-p-r,p-r-X andp-X-r roots (where X is another consonant) with meanings like "break off", "part," "cut", "shut off", "remove", "break up", "hide", "expel", suggesting aProto-Semitic biconsontal rootpr meaning "cut, divide."[1] It is first attested in theAkkadian verbkaparu ("wipe, smear"), withD-stemkupparu.[2]
كافر (kāfir) will appear on the front of the face ofdajjāl (Arabic:دجال).