khaleefeh

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A form of caliph — The holder of a monarchical title based on a claim to be a successor of Muhammad.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

nounkhaleefeh (plural khaleefehs)

plural khaleefehs

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of caliph.

    Ben Shohnah relates, that in the year 456 of the Hejra, in the reign of Kaiem, the twenty-sixth khaleefeh of the house of Abbas, a report was raised in Bagdad, which immediately spread throughout the whole province of Irak[.]

    1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 27
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