köken: Borrowed from French calife, from Medieval Latin calipha, from Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “vicar, successor”). Displaced patrimonial instance halifa as borrowed directly from Andalusian Arabic خَلِيْفَة (ẖalífah).
köken: Inherited from Medieval Latin calipha, from Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”, literally “successor, substitute”), from the triliteral root خ ل ف (ḵ l f).
aile: califfato
Per lo comandamento de lo signore califfo grande et alto, […]
köken: Borrowed. * Either a learned borrowing from Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”) (according to Andriotis). * Or from Ottoman Turkish خلیفه (halife), from Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”) (according to Babiniotis). From the Arabic, also derived the Mediaeval Greek χαλιφᾶς (khaliphâs, “Muhammad's successor”) of the 11th century, with a later sense "Muslim political and religious leader". * Or a…
köken: Borrowed from Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”), from the triliteral root خ ل ف (ḵ l f); literally, "successor, substitute". Cognate of Medieval Latin calipha.
Internationalism (compare English caliph, German Kalif (“caliph”), French calife (“caliph”)), ultimately from Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”) and خَلِيف (ḵalīf, “successor”).