khaleefeh

English

Noun

khaleefeh (plural khaleefehs)

1. Obsolete form of caliph.
   • 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 27:

     Ben Shohnah relates, that in the year 456 of the Hejra, in the reign of Kaiem, the twenty-sixth khaleefeh of the house of Abbas, a report was raised in Bagdad, which immediately spread throughout the whole province of Irak[.]