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khaliff

khaliff is the archaic 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 khaliff

pluralkhaliffs

Questions about khaliff

What is khaliff the archaic form of?
Khaliff is the archaic form of caliph.

Words near khaliff in the dictionary

  1. khalifat
  2. Khalifatabad
  3. khalifate
  4. khalifates
  5. khalifats
  6. khaliff
  7. khaliffs
  8. khalifs
  9. Khalil
  10. Khalili
  11. Khalilis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: khaliff (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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