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kaleefa

kaleefa is the obsolete form of caliph.

Meaning of caliph

Noun

caliph (plural caliphs)

  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.

Forms of kaleefa

pluralkaleefas

Questions about kaleefa

What is kaleefa the obsolete form of?
Kaleefa is the obsolete form of caliph.

Words near kaleefa in the dictionary

  1. kale runt
  2. kale runts
  3. Kaleb
  4. Kalecki
  5. Kaleckian
  6. kaleefa
  7. kaleefas
  8. kaleege
  9. kaleeges
  10. Kaleem
  11. Kaleesi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kaleefa (page history and authors); caliph (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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