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"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"word": "халиф"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "kallipa",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"word": "칼리파"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "xelîfe",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"word": "خەلیفە"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "xelîfe"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "halif",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"word": "халиф"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "kalif",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"word": "калиф"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "kalıypa",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"word": "калыйпа"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kalifs"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kalifas"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kalif",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "калиф"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "halif",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "халиф"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"word": "khalifah"
},
{
"code": "mrw",
"lang": "Maranao",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"word": "halipa"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kalif"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kalif"
},
{
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "xalifá",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "خليفه"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "xalife",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"word": "خلیفه"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kalif"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "califa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xalíf",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "хали́ф"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kalíf",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кали́ф"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "калиф"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "халиф"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "kalif"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "halif"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kalif"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kalif"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "califa"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"word": "khalifa"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kalif"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"word": "halipa"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "xalifa",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"word": "халифа"
},
{
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "xälifä",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"word": "хәлифә"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"word": "halife"
},
{
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"word": "halif"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "xalíf",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "халі́ф"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "xalīfā",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "خلیفہ"
},
{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "xelipe",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"word": "خەلىپە"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "political leader of the Muslim world",
"word": "xalifa"
}
],
"word": "caliph"
}
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