khalif

Other forms of khalif

plural

khalifs·

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 khalif

What does khalif mean?

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

How many syllables are in khalif?

khalif has 2 syllables: kha-lif. The stress falls on "kha".

What is another word for khalif?

Close synonyms include caliph, calif, kaliph, kalif, 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 khalif a common word?

khalif 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.