Khalīfah
خليفة
Say it kha-LEE-fah
One who succeeds
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- kh-l-f
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The early generations
- Also spelled
- Khalifa, Khaleefa, Halife
Meaning & source
A successor: from the root of one thing coming after another and standing in its place (Ibn Fāris).
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[خلف] الخاء واللام والفاء أصولٌ ثلاثة: أحدُها أن يجئَ شئٌ شئِ يقومُ مقامَه، والثانى خِلاف قُدَّام، والثالث التغيُّر فالأوّل الخَلَف.
Who carried this name
- Khalīfah ibn Khayyāṭ al-ʿUṣfurī, the historian of Basra al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 122 (vol. 11, p. 472)