caliph
See also: Caliph
Englisch
editAlternative forms
edit- khalifa, khalīfa (stricter transliterations)
- caleef, calif, kaleefa, kalif, kaliph, khalif, khaleefeh (all archaic)
Etymology
editFrom Middle English calife, caliphe, from Old French caliphe, from Medieval Latin calipha, from Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”) and خَلِيف (ḵalīf, “successor”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈkeɪlɪf/, /ˈkælɪf/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪlɪf
Nomen
editcaliph (plural caliphs)
- Monarchical title based on 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:...
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editpolitical leader of the Muslim world
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