خلافت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خِلَافَة (ḵilāfa).

Noun

خلافت • (ḫılâfet)

1. the quality, rank, functions of one who succeeds or acts as a substitute for another; especially, of him who succeeds to and represents Muhammed; the caliphate
2. the epoch or reign of any caliph

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• خلافت اتمك (ḫılâfet etmek, “to reign or officiate as caliph”)

Descendants

• Turkish: hilafet

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خلافت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 858

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خِلَافَة (ḵilāfa).

Noun

خلافت • (xilāfát) m

1. caliphate

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خِلَافَة (ḵilāfa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xi.lɑː.fat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɪ.lɑː.fät̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɪ.lɑː.fät̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xɪ.lɑː.fät̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xi.lɔː.fät̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xe.lɒː.fæt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χi.lɔ.fät̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	xilāfat
Dari reading?	xilāfat
Iranian reading?	xelâfat
Tajik reading?	xilofat

Noun

Dari	خلافت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	хилофат

خلافت • (xelâfat)

1. caliphate

Descendants

• → Bengali: খেলাফত (khelaphot)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: ख़िलाफ़त (xilāfat)
  • Urdu: خلافت (xilāfat)
• → Malayalam: ഖിലാഫത്ത് (khilāphattŭ)
• → Punjabi: خِلَافَت (xilāfat)
• → Sindhi: خلافت

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خلافت (xilāfat), from Arabic خِلَافَة (ḵilāfa).

Noun

خِلَافَت • (xilāfat) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਖ਼ਿਲਾਫ਼ਤ)

1. caliphate

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “خِلافت”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خلافت (xilāfat), from Arabic خِلَافَة (ḵilāfa).

Noun

خلافت • (transliteration needed) ?

1. caliphate

Further reading

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “خِلافَتَ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
• “خلافت”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خلافت (xilāfat), from Arabic خِلَافَة (ḵilāfa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xɪ.lɑː.fət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: خِ‧لا‧فَت

Noun

خِلافَت • (xilāfat) f (Hindi spelling ख़िलाफ़त)

1. caliphate

   خِلافَتِ عُثْمانِیَہ ― xilāfat-i ‘us̱māniyah ― Ottoman Caliphate

Declension

Declension of خلافت
	singular	plural
direct	خلافت (xilāfat)	خلافتیں (xilāfatẽ)
oblique	خلافت (xilāfat)	خلافتوں (xilāfatõ)
vocative	خلافت (xilāfat)	خلافتو (xilāfato)

References

• “خلافت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “خلافت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.