Caliph Definition

kālif, kalif; kəlēf
caliphs
noun
caliphs
Supreme ruler: the title taken by Muhammad's successors as secular and religious heads of Islam.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
caliph
Plural:
caliphs

Origin of Caliph

  • Middle English calife from Old French from Arabic ḫalīfa successor (to Muhammad), caliph from ḫalafa to succeed ḫlp in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French caliphe, from Medieval Latin califa, from Arabic خليف (khalīf) - successor.

    From Wiktionary

Caliph Sentence Examples

  • The caliph, Al Mansur, lived nearly twelve hundred years ago.

  • The caliph at once gave orders for the gardener to be brought before him the next day.

  • The caliph laughed outright, and so did every one that heard him.

  • About the year 646 `Amr was deprived of his government by the caliph Othman.

  • Moawiya, the first Omayyad caliph, chose Damascus for his residence; but in 750 the capital of the empire was removed by the Abbasids to Bagdad.

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