خلیفہ

ḵẖalīfa (for A. خلیفة ḵẖalīfat; v.n. fr. خلف 'to succeed'), s.m. A successor, a sovereign (particularly applied to the successors of Mohammad), a Caliph;—(in India the term is applied to a Mohammadan cook, or tailor, or barber; and also to the son of a master or tutor, to a monitor in a school, and to a fencing master).