caliphate

English

Alternative forms

• khalifat
• khalifate

Etymology

From Medieval Latin calīphātus, equivalent to caliph +‎ -ate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkælɪfeɪt/

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Noun

caliphate (plural caliphates)

1. A unified Islamic government for the Muslim world, ruled by a caliph.

Derived terms

• global caliphate

Related terms

• Caliph; Caliphist, Caliphism

Translations

Islamic government

• Afrikaans: kalifaat
• Albanian: kalifat (sq) m
• Arabic: خِلَافَة f (ḵilāfa)
• Aragonese: califato m
• Armenian: խալիֆայություն (hy) (xalifayutʻyun), խալիֆաթ (hy) (xalifatʻ)
• Asturian: califatu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: xəlifəlik, xilafət
• Bashkir: хәлифәлек (xəlifəlek)
• Basque: kalifa-herri, kaliferri
• Belarusian: халіфат m (xalifat)
• Bengali: খেলাফত (bn) (khelaphot)
• Breton: kalifiezh m
• Bulgarian: халифат m (halifat)
• Catalan: califat m
• Chechen: халифат (xalifat)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哈里發國／哈里发国 (zh) (hālǐfāguó)

• Czech: kalifát m, chalífát (cs) m
• Danish: kalifat n
• Dutch: kalifaat (nl) n
• Esperanto: kalifujo
• Estonian: kalifaat
• Finnish: kalifaatti (fi)
• French: califat (fr) m
• Galician: califato m
• Georgian: სახალიფო (saxalipo)
• German: Kalifat (de) n

  Alemannic German: Kalifat n

• Greek: χαλιφάτο (el) n (chalifáto)
• Hebrew: חֲלִיפוֹת (he) f (khalifot)
• Hindi: ख़िलाफ़त f (xilāfat), खिलाफत (hi) f (khilāphat)
• Hungarian: kalifátus (hu)
• Ido: kalifeso (io)
• Indonesian: khilafah
• Irish: cailifeacht f
• Italian: califfato m
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} イスラム帝国 (Isuramu teikoku)
• Javanese: khilafah
• Kazakh: халифат (xalifat)
• Korean: 아랍 제국 (Arap jeguk)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: خەلافەت (xelafet)

  Northern Kurdish: xelîfî (ku), xelîfetî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: халифат (ky) (halifat)
• Latvian: kalifāts (lv) m
• Lithuanian: kalifatas m
• Macedonian: халифат m (halifat)
• Malagasy: kalifaty
• Malay: khilafah
• Malayalam: ഖിലാഫത്ത് (ml) (khilāphattŭ)
• Marathi: खिलाफत f (khilāphat)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kalifat n

  Nynorsk: kalifat n

• Occitan: califat (oc) m
• Ottoman Turkish: خلافت (ḫılâfet)
• Pashto: خلافت (ps) m (xilāfát)
• Persian: خلافت (fa) (xelâfat)
• Polish: kalifat (pl) m
• Portuguese: califado m
• Punjabi: ਖ਼ਿਲਾਫ਼ਤ (xilāfat), خِلَافَت f (xilāfat)
• Romanian: califat (ro) n
• Russian: халифа́т (ru) m (xalifát)
• Scottish Gaelic: cèileafaid m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: калифа́т m, халифа́т m

  Roman: kalifat (sh) m, halifat (sh) m

• Sicilian: califfatu m
• Sindhi: خلافت (xelâfat)
• Slovak: kalifát m, chalífát m
• Slovene: kalifat (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kalifat m

  Upper Sorbian: kalifat m

• Spanish: califato (es) m
• Swedish: kalifat (sv) n
• Tajik: хилофат (xilofat)
• Tatar: хәлифәлек (xälifälek)
• Thai: รัฐเคาะลีฟะฮ์ (rát kór lee fá)
• Turkish: hilafet (tr), halifelik (tr)
• Turkmen: halifat
• Ukrainian: халіфа́т m (xalifát)
• Urdu: خلافت f (xilāfat)
• Uyghur: خەلىپىلىك (xelipilik)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: халифалик (xalifalik)

  Roman: xalifalik (uz)

• Vietnamese: 王朝回教 (Vương triều Hồi giáo)
• Welsh: califfiaeth f, califfaeth f
• Yiddish: כאַליפֿאַט m (khalifat)
• Zazaki: xilafet

See also

• Panislamism
• Dar al-Islam

Anagrams

• cataphile, hepatical