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خَلِيفَة

khalāifa

successors

প্রতিনিধি

Root letters: خ ل فAppears 9 times in the Qur'an#895 most frequentNoun (ism)Masculine (mudhakkar)
Learn it in lesson 90

About this word

Noun (ism)Masculine (mudhakkar)Root letters: خ ل ف

Singular & plural — as used in the Qur'an

  • Singular (mufrad)خَلِيفَةًۭ ۖ2 times
  • Plural (jamʿ)خَلَـٰٓئِفَ7 times

Forms in the Qur'an

  • خَلَـٰٓئِفَsuccessorskhalāifa · 4 times
  • خُلَفَآءَsuccessorskhulafāa · 3 times
  • خَلِيفَةًۭ ۖa vicegerentkhalīfatan · 1 times
  • خَلِيفَةًۭa vicegerentkhalīfatan · 1 times

Words from the same root

More words from the root خ ل ف — know one root, recognise many words.

Examples from the Qur'an

Then We made you successors in the land after them so that We may observe how you will do.

Surah 10:14 — Read full ayah

Is He [not best] who responds to the desperate one when he calls upon Him and removes evil and makes you inheritors of the earth? Is there a deity with Allāh? Little do you remember.

Surah 27:62 — Read full ayah

And they denied him, so We saved him and those with him in the ship and made them successors, and We drowned those who denied Our signs. Then see how was the end of those who were warned.

Surah 10:73 — Read full ayah