Zulfiqar was the famous sword of Hazret-i Ali, fourth caliph of Islam.
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Caliph
//ˈkeɪlɪf//
Synonyms for "caliph" (7 found)
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Translations
88 translations across 70 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- kalif noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Amharic
1 entries- ኸሊፍ noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- χαλιφᾶς noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Arabic
2 entries- خليفة noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
- خَلِيفَة noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Armenian
2 entries- ամիրապետ noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
- խալիֆ noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- xəlifə noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Bashkir
1 entries- хәлифә noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Belarusian
1 entries- халі́ф noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Bengali
1 entries- খলিফা noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Bulgarian
1 entries- хали́ф noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Catalan
1 entries- califa noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- خەلیفە noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 哈里發 /哈里发 noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- halife noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Czech
2 entries- chalífa noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
- kalif noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Danish
1 entries- kalif noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Dari
1 entries- خَلِیفَه noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Dutch
1 entries- kalief noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Esperanto
2 entries- kalifo noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
- ĥalifo noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Estonian
1 entries- kaliif noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Faroese
1 entries- kaliffur noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Finnish
1 entries- kalifi noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
French
1 entries- calife noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Georgian
1 entries- ხალიფა noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
German
2 entries- Kalif noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
- Kalifin (cf. Päpstin) noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Greek
1 entries- χαλίφης noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Hebrew
3 entries- חָלִיף noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
- ח׳ליפה noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
- כָּלִיף noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Hindi
2 entries- खलीफा noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
- ख़लीफ़ा noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Hungarian
1 entries- kalifa noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Ido
1 entries- kalifo noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Indonesian
1 entries- khalifah noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Interlingua
1 entries- califa noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- خَلیفِه noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Irish
1 entries- cailif noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Italian
1 entries- califfo noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Japanese
2 entries- カリフ noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
- ハリーファ noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Kazakh
1 entries- халиф noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Korean
1 entries- 칼리파 noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Kyrgyz
3 entries- калиф noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
- калыйпа noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
- халиф noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Latvian
1 entries- kalifs noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kalifas noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Macedonian
2 entries- калиф noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
- халиф noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Malay
1 entries- khalifah noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Maranao
1 entries- halipa noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- xelîfe noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kalif noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kalif noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- خلیفه noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Pashto
1 entries- خليفه noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Polish
1 entries- kalif noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Portuguese
1 entries- califa noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Romanian
1 entries- calif noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Russian
2 entries- кали́ф noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
- хали́ф noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- hàlīf noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
- kàlīf noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
- ка̀лӣф noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
- ха̀лӣф noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Slovak
1 entries- kalif noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Slovene
1 entries- kalif noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Spanish
1 entries- califa noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Swahili
1 entries- khalifa noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Swedish
1 entries- kalif noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Tagalog
1 entries- halipa noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Tajik
1 entries- халифа noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Tatar
1 entries- хәлифә noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Thai
2 entries- กาหลิบ noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
- คอลีฟะห์ noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Turkish
1 entries- halife noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Turkmen
2 entries- halif noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
- halypa noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Ukrainian
1 entries- халі́ф noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Urdu
1 entries- خَلِیفَہ noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Uyghur
1 entries- خەلىپە noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Uzbek
1 entries- xalifa noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Vietnamese
1 entries- kha-lip noun (political leader of the Muslim world)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Islamic tradition has a Jewish convert, Kaʽb al-Aḥbār, pointing the Foundation Stone out to the caliph Umar, which Umar immediately recognized as a holy site for Jews.
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Kaʽb al-Aḥbār suggested the Temple Mount to the caliph Umar as a place to build a mosque, not because of Mohammed, but because it was sacred to him as a Jewish convert.
Source: tatoeba (10540859)
The caliph Umar initially suggested that Kaʽb al-Aḥbār was imitating his former religion of Judaism by suggesting that a mosque be built over the Foundation Stone on the Temple Mount.
Source: tatoeba (10540870)
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