caliph

See also: Caliph

English

Alternative forms

• calif, kalif, kaliph, khalif, khalifa

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French caliphe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin calipha, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”) and خَلِيف (ḵalīf, “successor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪ̪lɪf/, /ˈkælɪf/

Noun

caliph (plural caliphs)

1. The political leader of the Muslim world, successor of Muhammad's political authority, not religious or spiritual.

   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.

Derived terms

• Calipha, Caliphess
• caliphdom
• caliphhood
• Caliphist
• Caliphism
• caliphal
• caliphian
• caliphate
• caliphship

Related terms

• caliphate

Translations

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 (kholipha)
• Bulgarian: хали́ф m (halíf)
• Catalan: califa (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哈里發 (zh) (hālǐfā), 哈里发 (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)
• 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)
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• Korean: 칼리파 (kallipa)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

  Sorani:

• Kyrgyz: халиф (halif), калиф (kalif), калыйпа (ky) (kalıypa)
• Latvian: kalifs (lv) m
• Lithuanian: kalifas m
• Macedonian: калиф m (kalif), халиф m (halif)
• Malay: khalifah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kalif m

  Nynorsk: kalif m

• Pashto: خليفه (ps) m (xalifá)
• Persian: خلیفه (fa) (xalife)
• Polish: kalif (pl) m
• Portuguese: califa
• 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
• 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)

Anagrams

• chapli, haplic