Wondering how to use Taifa in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning .
Taifa meaning
- A Muslim principality on the Iberian Peninsula during the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries.
- A similar Islamic principality on Sicily after the fall of the en:Emirate of Sicily
Using Taifa
- The main meaning on this page is: A Muslim principality on the Iberian Peninsula during the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries. | A similar Islamic principality on Sicily after the fall of the en:Emirate of Sicily
- In the example corpus, taifa often appears in combinations such as: the taifa, taifa kingdoms, taifa and.
Context around Taifa
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 6 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Taifa
- In this selection, "taifa" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, kilogram, satellite, powerful, kingdoms, care and leo stand out and add context to how "taifa" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1671 the taifa rebelled killed and 5 kilogram taifa 1 which. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "taifa" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with taifa
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He is referred to by Sufis as Sayyid-ut Taifa—i. (11 words)
The Taifa kingdoms lost ground to the Christian realms in the north. (12 words)
In 1671, the taifa rebelled, killed the agha, and placed one of its own in power. (16 words)
Their religious teachers, as well as others in the east, (most notably, al-Ghazali in Persia and al-Tartushi in Egypt, who was himself an Iberian by birth from Tortosa ), detested the taifa rulers for their religious indifference. (38 words)
The 3.5-kilogram Taifa-1 – which means “one nation” in Swahili – was launched with 50 other payloads on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on April 15. (32 words)
Alfonso VI was first and foremost a tactful monarch who chose to understand the kings of taifa and employed unprecedented diplomatic measures to attain political feats before considering the use of force. (32 words)
Example sentences (16)
The 3.5-kilogram Taifa-1 – which means “one nation” in Swahili – was launched with 50 other payloads on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on April 15.
The launch of Kenya's first operational 3U Earth observation satellite, Taifa-1 has been pushed forward by a day.
She stressed the need to strengthen weak links within the healthcare system to ensure that progress continues and that Taifa Care becomes a reality.
Taifa Leo, a sister Swahili publication to Kenya’s leading Daily Nation, chose “nchi za kinyesi,” a more or less exact translation but with a gentler word for excrement.
Alfonso VI was first and foremost a tactful monarch who chose to understand the kings of taifa and employed unprecedented diplomatic measures to attain political feats before considering the use of force.
Ferdinand's strategy was to continue to demand parias until the taifa was greatly weakened both militarily and financially.
He is referred to by Sufis as Sayyid-ut Taifa—i.
He returned to Iberia in 1090, avowedly for the purpose of annexing the taifa principalities of Iberia.
In 1671, the taifa rebelled, killed the agha, and placed one of its own in power.
In between was a period of Christian unification under Navarrese hegemony and success in the Reconquista against the taifa kingdoms that replaced the fallen caliphate.
New centers of power arose, each ruling a taifa (and often with multiple levels of nominal fealty and relative independence, according to the patterns of feudalism ).
Once he had secured the Borders, King Alfonso conquered the powerful Taifa kingdom of Toledo in 1085.
The break-up of Al-Andalus into the competing taifa kingdoms helped the long embattled Iberian Christian kingdoms gain the initiative.
Their religious teachers, as well as others in the east, (most notably, al-Ghazali in Persia and al-Tartushi in Egypt, who was himself an Iberian by birth from Tortosa ), detested the taifa rulers for their religious indifference.
The Taifa kingdoms lost ground to the Christian realms in the north.
The taifa of Seville was especially influential, but the Emirate of Granada was the last to survive, lasting from 1228 until 1492.
Common combinations with taifa
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: