calif

Other forms of calif

plural

califs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about calif

What does calif mean?

calif means "the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth".

How many syllables are in calif?

calif has 2 syllables: cal-if. The stress falls on "cal". In IPA it is /ˈkælɪf/.

What is another word for calif?

Close synonyms include caliph, kaliph, kalif, khalif, khalifah. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calif a common word?

calif is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.