(again as I cited, in Arab-African relations the term has been used as a "general term for several different peoples of Southern Africa." Lolol)
--- by
Europeans.
Europeans in southern Africa and their descendants. Not "Arabs" --- which even if it were Arabs, is not the same thing as "Muslims" anyway.
The Portuguese (though European) are of
Arab descent...obviously, fried (that's short for brain-fried LOLOLOL,) if they used it as an Arab word, the word can be traced to their Arab origins...
And as the link said it meant originally "disbeliever" or "one without religion" so again stupid it was obviously related to Islam in it's application to Blacks LOL.
It has nothing to do with anyone's
color. See the post(s) above that completely let the air out of those tires. For one:
KAFFIR------that includes Christians as white as snow------and jews of any color--- ...
-------OTHER people picked it for whatever they wished to derogate.
And trying to claim the Portuguese are "Arab" is completely laughable. You're talking to a Lusophile here and I know better. Portugal was mostly settled by Celts and several Germanic tribes -- not "Arabs". The whole nasally-smooth nature of the Portuguese language comes, like French, from the Celtic influence on Latin. In fact in Galícia, the northwest corner of Spain directly north of Portugal, they speak a dialect that more resembles Portuguese than Spanish. Celtic.
Long after that, Portuguese traders picked up the term from Arabs and eventually applied it elsewhere. That they were at the time dealing in Africans gave it a "black" connotation. But it's not what the word means in its original (Arabic).