kofer

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew כֹּפֶר

Noun

kofer (plural kofrim)

  1. (Judaism) A nonbeliever.
    • 2003 February 16, David Goldman, “#Zionists: Ethiopian Christian Converts Yes! Native Palestinians No!”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):
      Yishai is a kofer and apikorus, and so is Ravitz, and their whole gang of hypocritical collaborator two-faced opportunistic self-serving money-grabbing narcissistic snob idolator-loving desecrators of the Torah that make up UTJ and Shas.

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Koffer, from French coffre, from Old French cofre, from Latin cophinus (basket), from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, basket).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔfɛr/

Noun

kofer m (genitive kofra or kofera, diminutive koferk)

  1. suitcase

Declension

With syncope of e:

Without syncope of e:

Derived terms

  • koferowy, kofrowy

Further reading

  • Starosta, Manfred (1999), kofer”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from German Koffer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kǒfer/
  • Hyphenation: ko‧fer

Noun

kòfer m (Cyrillic spelling ко̀фер)

  1. suitcase

Declension

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