caliphate

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Medieval Latin calīphātus, equivalent to caliph +‎ -ate.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkælɪfeɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

caliphate (plural caliphates)

A unified Islamic government for the Muslim world, ruled by a caliph.

Derived terms

global caliphate

Related terms

Caliph; Caliphist, Caliphism

Translations

Islamic government

Afrikaans: kalifaat
Albanian: kalifat (sq) m
Arabic: خِلَافَة f (ḵilāfa)
Aragonese: califato m
Armenian: խալիֆայություն (hy) (xalifayutʻyun), խալիֆաթ (hy) (xalifatʻ)
Asturian: califatu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: xəlifəlik, xilafət
Bashkir: хәлифәлек (xəlifəlek)
Basque: kalifa-herri, kaliferri
Belarusian: халіфат m (xalifat)
Bengali: খেলাফত (bn) (khelaphot)
Breton: kalifiezh m
Bulgarian: халифат m (halifat)
Catalan: califat m
Chechen: халифат (xalifat)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 哈里發國／哈里发国 (zh) (hālǐfāguó)
Czech: kalifát m, chalífát (cs) m
Danish: kalifat n
Dutch: kalifaat (nl) n
Esperanto: kalifujo
Estonian: kalifaat
Finnish: kalifaatti (fi)
French: califat (fr) m
Galician: califato m
Georgian: სახალიფო (saxalipo)
German: Kalifat (de) n
Alemannic German: Kalifat n
Greek: χαλιφάτο (el) n (chalifáto)
Hebrew: חֲלִיפוֹת (he) f (khalifot)
Hindi: ख़िलाफ़त f (xilāfat), खिलाफत (hi) f (khilāphat)
Hungarian: kalifátus (hu)
Ido: kalifeso (io)
Indonesian: khilafah
Irish: cailifeacht f
Italian: califfato m
Japanese: ^{(please verify)} イスラム帝国 (Isuramu teikoku)
Javanese: khilafah
Kazakh: халифат (xalifat)
Korean: 아랍 제국 (Arap jeguk)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: خەلافەت (xelafet)

Northern Kurdish: xelîfî (ku), xelîfetî (ku)
Kyrgyz: халифат (ky) (halifat)
Latvian: kalifāts (lv) m
Lithuanian: kalifatas m
Macedonian: халифат m (halifat)
Malagasy: kalifaty
Malay: khilafah
Malayalam: ഖിലാഫത്ത് (ml) (khilāphattŭ)
Marathi: खिलाफत f (khilāphat)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kalifat n

Nynorsk: kalifat n
Occitan: califat (oc) m
Ottoman Turkish: خلافت (ḫılâfet)
Pashto: خلافت (ps) m (xilāfát)
Persian: خلافت (fa) (xelâfat)
Polish: kalifat (pl) m
Portuguese: califado m
Punjabi: ਖ਼ਿਲਾਫ਼ਤ (xilāfat), خِلَافَت f (xilāfat)
Romanian: califat (ro) n
Russian: халифа́т (ru) m (xalifát)
Scottish Gaelic: cèileafaid m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: калифа́т m, халифа́т m

Roman: kalifat (sh) m, halifat (sh) m
Sicilian: califfatu m
Sindhi: خلافت (xelâfat)
Slovak: kalifát m, chalífát m
Slovene: kalifat (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: kalifat m

Upper Sorbian: kalifat m
Spanish: califato (es) m
Swedish: kalifat (sv) n
Tajik: хилофат (xilofat)
Tatar: хәлифәлек (xälifälek)
Thai: รัฐเคาะลีฟะฮ์ (rát kór lee fá)
Turkish: hilafet (tr), halifelik (tr)
Turkmen: halifat
Ukrainian: халіфа́т m (xalifát)
Urdu: خلافت f (xilāfat)
Uyghur: خەلىپىلىك (xelipilik)
Uzbek:
Cyrillic: халифалик (xalifalik)

Roman: xalifalik (uz)
Vietnamese: 王朝回教 (Vương triều Hồi giáo)
Welsh: califfiaeth f, califfaeth f
Yiddish: כאַליפֿאַט m (khalifat)
Zazaki: xilafet

Anagrams

cataphile, hepatical

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