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Cafiristan

Cafiristan is the obsolete form of Kafiristan.

Meaning of Kafiristan

Proper noun

Kafiristan

  1. (historical) A region that covered present-day Nuristan Province in Afghanistan and its surroundings.

Questions about Cafiristan

What is Cafiristan the obsolete form of?
Cafiristan is the obsolete form of Kafiristan.

Words near Cafiristan in the dictionary

  1. cafilah
  2. cafilahs
  3. cafilas
  4. cafileh
  5. cafilehs
  6. Cafiristan
  7. cafiso
  8. cafisos
  9. cafisso
  10. cafissos
  11. cafiz

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cafiristan (page history and authors); Kafiristan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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