Khalaf
خلف
Say it KHA-laf
One who comes after
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- kh-l-f
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The early generations
- Also spelled
- Khalaf, Halef
Meaning & source
A successor: Ibn Fāris says the khalaf is what comes after, as in “a true successor of his father”.
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والخَلَف: ما جاء بعدُ.
Who carried this name
- Khalaf ibn Hishām, one of the ten Qurʾān readers al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 203 (vol. 10, p. 576)