Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkeɪlɪf/, /ˈkælɪf/
- Rhymes: -eɪlɪf
Noun
caliph (plural caliphs)
- The holder of a monarchical title based on a claim to be a successor of Muhammad.
- 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:...
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 (bn) (kholipha)
- Bulgarian: хали́ф m (halíf)
- Catalan: califa (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 哈里發 / 哈里发 (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
- 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
- Ottoman Turkish: خلیفه (halife)
- Pashto: خليفه (ps) m (xalifá)
- Persian:
- Dari: خَلِیفَه (xalīfa)
- Iranian Persian: خَلیفِه (xalife)
- Polish: kalif (pl) m
- Portuguese: califa (pt) m
- Romanian: calif (ro) m
- Russian: хали́ф (ru) m (xalíf), кали́ф (ru) m (kalíf)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ка̀лӣф m, ха̀лӣф m
- Roman: kàlīf (sh) m, hàlīf (sh) m
- Slovak: kalif (sk) m
- Slovene: kalif (sl) m
- Spanish: califa (es) m
- Swahili: khalifa
- Swedish: kalif (sv) c
- Tagalog: halipa
- Tajik: халифа (tg) (xalifa)
- Tatar: хәлифә (xälifä)
- Thai: กาหลิบ, คอลีฟะห์
- Turkish: halife (tr)
- Turkmen: halypa, halif
- Ukrainian: халі́ф m (xalíf)
- Urdu: خَلِیفَہ m (xalīfa)
- Uyghur: خەلىپە (xelipe)
- Uzbek: xalifa (uz)
- Vietnamese: kha-lip
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