khaleefeh

English

Noun

khaleefeh (plural khaleefehs)

  1. Obsolete form of caliph.
    • 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 27:
      Ben Shohnah relates, that in the year 456 of the Hejra, in the reign of Kaiem, the twenty-sixth khaleefeh of the house of Abbas, a report was raised in Bagdad, which immediately spread throughout the whole province of Irak[.]
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