خلافت
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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic خِلَافَة (ḵilāfa).
Noun
خلافت • (ḫılâfet)
- the quality, rank, functions of one who succeeds or acts as a substitute for another; especially, of him who succeeds to and represents Muhammed; the caliphate
- the epoch or reign of any caliph
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
- خلافت اتمك (ḫılâfet etmek, “to reign or officiate as caliph”)
Descendants
- Turkish: hilafet
Further reading
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خلافت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 858
Pashto
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic خِلَافَة (ḵilāfa).
Noun
خلافت • (xilāfát) m
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic خِلَافَة (ḵilāfa).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | xilāfat |
| Dari reading? | xilāfat |
| Iranian reading? | xelâfat |
| Tajik reading? | xilofat |
Noun
| Dari | خلافت |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | хилофат |
خلافت • (xelâfat)
Descendants
- → Bengali: খেলাফত (khelaphot)
- → Hindustani:
- → Malayalam: ഖിലാഫത്ത് (khilāphattŭ)
- → Punjabi: خِلَافَت (xilāfat)
- → Sindhi: خلافت
Punjabi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian خلافت (xilāfat), from Arabic خِلَافَة (ḵilāfa).
Noun
خِلَافَت • (xilāfat) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਖ਼ਿਲਾਫ਼ਤ)
Further reading
- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “خِلافت”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
Sindhi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian خلافت (xilāfat), from Arabic خِلَافَة (ḵilāfa).
Noun
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خلافت • (transliteration needed) ?
Further reading
- Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “خِلافَتَ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
- “خلافت”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian خلافت (xilāfat), from Arabic خِلَافَة (ḵilāfa).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /xɪ.lɑː.fət̪/
- Rhymes: -ət̪
- Hyphenation: خِ‧لا‧فَت
Noun
خِلافَت • (xilāfat) f (Hindi spelling ख़िलाफ़त)
- caliphate
- خِلافَتِ عُثْمانِیَہ ― xilāfat-i ‘us̱māniyah ― Ottoman Caliphate
Declension
| Declension of خلافت | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| direct | خلافت (xilāfat) | خلافتیں (xilāfatẽ) | ||||||
| oblique | خلافت (xilāfat) | خلافتوں (xilāfatõ) | ||||||
| vocative | خلافت (xilāfat) | خلافتو (xilāfato) | ||||||