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kallama

speak

كَلَّمَ

Word

Verb · Form II

Root

ك ل م

Forms

Present
يُكَلِّمُ

In the library

وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ لَوْلَا يُكَلِّمُنَا اللَّهُ أَوْ تَأْتِينَا آيَةٌ ۗ كَذَٰلِكَ قَالَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ مِثْلَ قَوْلِهِمْ ۘ تَشَابَهَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ ۗ قَدْ بَيَّنَّا الْآيَاتِ لِقَوْمٍ يُوقِنُونَ

The Qurʾān, page 18 →
Conjugation
Person PastPresentCommand
he هُوَ كَلَّمَيُكَلِّمُ—
she هِيَ كَلَّمَتتُكَلِّمُ—
they two (m.) هُما كَلَّمايُكَلِّمانِ—
they two (f.) هُما كَلَّمَتاتُكَلِّمانِ—
they (m.) هُمْ كَلَّمُوايُكَلِّمُونَ—
they (f.) هُنَّ كَلَّمْنَيُكَلِّمْنَ—
you (m.) أَنْتَ كَلَّمْتَتُكَلِّمُكَلِّمْ
you (f.) أَنْتِ كَلَّمْتِتُكَلِّمِينَكَلِّمِي
you two أَنْتُما كَلَّمْتُماتُكَلِّمانِكَلِّمَا
you (m. pl.) أَنْتُمْ كَلَّمْتُمتُكَلِّمُونَكَلِّمُوا
you (f. pl.) أَنْتُنَّ كَلَّمْتُنَّتُكَلِّمْنَكَلِّمْنَ
I أَنا كَلَّمْتُأُكَلِّمُ—
we نَحْنُ كَلَّمْنانُكَلِّمُ—

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 8 entries
  • كَالَمَهُ Form III Open entry
    i. q. نَاطَقَهُ. (TA in art. نطق.)
  • تَكَلَّمَ غَنْهُ Form V He spoke for him
    He spoke for him; syn. عَبَّرَ. (S, Msb, art. عبر.)
  • تَكَالَمَا Form VI They spoke, talked, or discoursed, each with the other
    They spoke, talked, or discoursed, each with the other. (S, * M.)
  • كَلِمَةٌ A word
    A word: (Kull, 301:) an expression: (K:) a proposition: a sentence: [a saying:] an argument. (Kull.) An assertion: an expression of opinion.
  • كَلَامٌ A saying, &c.; and sayings, or words
    is a gen. n., applying to little and to much, or to few or many; (S, TA;) to what is a sing. and to what is a pl. (TA.) It may therefore be rendered A saying, &c.; and sayings, or words: see an ex. voce أَفْكَلُ, in art. فكل. ― -b2- كَلَامٌ Speech; something spoken; [diction; language;] parlance; talk; discourse: (Msb, &c.:) a saying: a say: something said: in grammar, a sentence. الكَلِمُ الطَّيِّبُ: see طَيِّتٌ. ― -b3- كَلَامٌ: also, a quasi-inf. n. for تكليم, sometimes governing as a verb, [like the inf. n.,] accord. to some of the grammarians; as in the following ex.: " قالوا كلامك هنداً وهى مصغية يشفيك قلت صحيح ذاك لو كانا " (Sharh Shudhoor edh-Dhahab.) See إِسْمُ مَصْدَرٍ. ― -b4- عِلْمُ الكَلَامِ [The theology of the Muslims;] a science in which one investigates the being and attributes of God, and the conditions of possible things with respect to creation and restitution, according to the rule of El-Islám; which last restriction is for the exclusion of the theology of the philosophers. (KT.)
  • رَجُلٌ كِلِّيمٌ Open entry
    , like سِكِّيتّ [and حِدِّيثٌ] i. q. مِنْطِيقٌ. (Ibn-'Abbád, Z, TA.)
  • كُلْيَةٌ Open entry
    of a bow: see أَبْهَرُ ― -b2- of a مَزَادَة: see خُرْبَةٌ.
  • مُتَكَلِّمٌ A Muslim theologian
    A Muslim theologian. See عِلْمُ الكَلَامِ.

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