califa
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Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəˈli.fə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [kaˈli.fa]
- Rhymes: -ifa
- Hyphenation: ca‧li‧fa
Noun
[edit]califa m (plural califes)
Related terms
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -ifɐ
- Hyphenation: ca‧li‧fa
Noun
[edit]califa m (plural califas)
- caliph (political leader of the Muslim world)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]califa m (plural califas)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “califa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Catalan/ifa
- Rhymes:Catalan/ifa/3 syllables
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan masculine nouns ending in -a
- Catalan masculine nouns
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ifɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ifɐ/3 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese nouns with irregular gender
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Heads of state
- Spanish terms borrowed from French
- Spanish terms derived from French
- Spanish terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Arabic
- Spanish terms derived from Andalusian Arabic
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ifa
- Rhymes:Spanish/ifa/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish nouns with irregular gender
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Heads of state