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English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin calīphātus, equivalent to caliph + -ate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkælɪfeɪt/, /ˈkeɪlɪfeɪt/
Noun
caliphate (plural caliphates)
- Monarchical government based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad, ruled by a caliph.
Derived terms
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: חֲלִיפוּת (he) f (khalifútֶ)
- 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: (please verify) 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 (pt) 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
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