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From Middle English calife , caliphe , from Old French caliphe , from Medieval Latin calipha , from Arabic خَلِيفَة ( ḵalīfa , “ caliph ” ) and خَلِيف ( ḵalīf , “ successor ” ) .
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IPA (key ) : /ˈkeɪlɪf/ , /ˈkælɪf/
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Rhymes: -eɪlɪf
caliph (plural caliphs )
The political leader of the Muslim world; the successor of the prophet Muhammad 's political authority.
Hypernym: cleric
The Abbasid caliphs patronized art and science beside religious developments ushering in the Islamic Golden Age when their capital Baghdad began to flourish as a center of knowledge, culture and trade.
1837 , L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon ], “The Coronation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. [ … ] , volume II, London: Henry Colburn , [ … ] , →OCLC , pages 148-149 :It carries us to the East, and the stately halls of the caliphs rise on the mind's eye; and we think over the thousand and one stories which made our childhood so happy, and stored up a world of unconscious poetry for our future years:...
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Translations
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political leader of the Muslim world
Albanian: kalif (sq) m
Amharic: ኸሊፍ ( xälif )
Arabic: خَلِيفَة m ( ḵalīfa )
Egyptian Arabic: خليفة m ( ḵalīfa )
Armenian: խալիֆ (hy) ( xalif ) , ամիրապետ (hy) ( amirapet )
Azerbaijani: xəlifə (az)
Bashkir: хәлифә ( xəlifə )
Belarusian: халі́ф m ( xalíf )
Bengali: খলিফা (bn) ( kholipha )
Bulgarian: хали́ф m ( halíf )
Catalan: califa (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 哈里發 (zh) ( hālǐfā )
Crimean Tatar: halife
Czech: kalif (cs) , chalífa (cs)
Danish: kalif c
Dutch: kalief (nl) m
Esperanto: kalifo , ĥalifo
Estonian: kaliif
Faroese: kaliffur m
Finnish: kalifi (fi)
French: calife (fr) m
Georgian: ხალიფა ( xalipa )
German: Kalif (de) m , Kalifin f ( cf. Päpstin )
Greek: χαλίφης (el) m ( chalífis )
Ancient: χαλιφᾶς m ( khaliphâs )
Hebrew: ח׳ליפה m , חָלִיף m ( khalif ) , כָּלִיף m ( kalif )
Hindi: ख़लीफ़ा m ( xalīfā ) , खलीफा (hi) m ( khalīphā )
Hungarian: kalifa (hu)
Ido: kalifo (io)
Indonesian: khalifah (id)
Interlingua: califa
Irish: cailif m
Italian: califfo (it) m
Japanese: カリフ ( karifu ) , ハリーファ ( harīfā )
Kazakh: халиф ( xalif )
Korean: 칼리파 ( kallipa )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: خەلیفە ( xelîfe )
Northern Kurdish: xelîfe (ku) m
Kyrgyz: халиф ( halif ) , калиф ( kalif ) , калыйпа (ky) ( kalıypa )
Latvian: kalifs (lv) m
Lithuanian: kalifas m
Macedonian: калиф m ( kalif ) , халиф m ( halif )
Malay: khalifah
Maranao: halipa
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kalif m
Nynorsk: kalif m
Pashto: خليفه (ps) m ( xalifá )
Persian: خلیفه (fa) ( xalife )
Polish: kalif (pl) m
Portuguese: califa m
Russian: хали́ф (ru) m ( xalíf ) , кали́ф (ru) m ( kalíf )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: калиф m , халиф m
Roman: kalif (sh) m , halif (sh) m
Slovak: kalif (sk) m
Slovene: kalif (sl) m
Spanish: califa (es) m
Swahili: khalifa
Swedish: kalif (sv) c
Tagalog: halipa
Tajik: халифа ( xalifa )
Tatar: хәлифә ( xälifä )
Turkish: halife (tr)
Turkmen: halif
Ukrainian: халі́ф m ( xalíf )
Urdu: خلیفہ m ( xalīfā )
Uyghur: خەلىپە ( xelipe )
Uzbek: xalifa (uz)
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