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noun the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth
originFrom Middle English calife, caliphe, from Old French caliphe, from Medieval Latin calipha, from Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”) and خَلِيف (ḵalīf, “successor”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0