califa

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəˈli.fə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈli.fa]
• Rhymes: -ifa
• Hyphenation: ca‧li‧fa

Noun

califa m (plural califes)

1. caliph

Related terms

• califat

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈli.fɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈli.fɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈli.fa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈli.fɐ/

• Rhymes: -ifɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧li‧fa

Noun

califa m (plural califas)

1. caliph (political leader of the Muslim world)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French calife, from Medieval Latin calipha, from Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “vicar, successor”). Displaced patrimonial instance halifa as borrowed directly from Andalusian Arabic خَلِيْفَة (ẖalífah).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈlifa/ [kaˈli.fa]

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ifa
• Syllabification: ca‧li‧fa

Noun

califa m (plural califas)

1. caliph

Derived terms

• califal
• califato

Further reading

• “califa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10