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caliph

noun
/ˈkeɪlɪf/

Etymology

From Middle English calife, caliphe, from Old French caliphe, from Medieval Latin calipha, from Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”) and خَلِيف (ḵalīf, “successor”).

  1. derived from خَلِيفَة
  2. derived from calipha
  3. derived from caliphe
  4. inherited from calife

Definitions

  1. The holder of a monarchical title based on a claim to be a successor of Muhammad.

    • 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.
    • 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:...

  2. Alternative letter-case form of caliph.

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