خلافت

Borrowed from Arabic خِلَافَة (ḵilāfa).

خلافت • (ḫılâfet)

1. the quality, rank, functions of one who succeeds or acts as a substitute for another; especially, of him who succeeds to and represents Muhammed; the caliphate
2. the epoch or reign of any caliph

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• خلافت اتمك (ḫılâfet etmek, “to reign or officiate as caliph”)

• Turkish: hilafet

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خلافت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 858

Borrowed from Arabic خِلَافَة (ḵilāfa).

خلافت • (xilāfát) m

1. caliphate

Borrowed from Arabic خِلَافَة (ḵilāfa).

خلافت • (xelâfat)

1. caliphate

• → Bengali: খেলাফত (khelaphot)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: ख़िलाफ़त (xilāfat)

  Urdu: خلافت (xilāfat)

• → Malayalam: ഖിലാഫത്ത് (khilāphattŭ)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਖ਼ਿਲਾਫ਼ਤ (xilāfat)

  Shahmukhi script: خِلَافَت (xilāfat)

• → Sindhi: خلافت

Borrowed from Classical Persian خلافت (xilāfat), from Arabic خِلَافَة (ḵilāfa).

خِلَافَت • (xilāfat) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਖ਼ਿਲਾਫ਼ਤ)

1. caliphate

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “خِلافت”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Borrowed from Classical Persian خلافت (xilāfat), from Arabic خِلَافَة (ḵilāfa).

head=خِلافَتَ

خلافت • (transliteration needed) ?

1. caliphate

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “خِلافَتَ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
• “خلافت”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

Borrowed from Classical Persian خلافت (xilāfat), from Arabic خِلَافَة (ḵilāfa).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xɪ.lɑː.fət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: خِ‧لا‧فَت

خِلافَت • (xilāfat) f (Hindi spelling ख़िलाफ़त)

1. caliphate

   خِلافَتِ عُثْمانِیَہ ― xilāfat-i ‘us̱māniyah ― Ottoman Caliphate

• “خلافت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “خلافت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.