caliph
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of caliph
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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:...”
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noun
-
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:...”
- (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of caliph.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English calife, caliphe, from Old French caliphe, from Medieval Latin calipha, from Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”) and خَلِيف (ḵalīf, “successor”).
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