caliph

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

caliphs plural khalifa alternative khalīfa alternative caleef alternative,archaic calif alternative,archaic kaleefa alternative,archaic kalif alternative,archaic kaliph alternative,archaic khalif alternative,archaic khaleefeh alternative,archaic

词源

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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