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kālama

speak with

كالَمَ

Word

Verb · Form III

Root

ك ل م

Forms

Present
يُكالِمُ
Verbal noun
كَلام

In the library

فضحكت ضحكا ما ضحكت مثله، وتكالمنا حتى كأنه لم يقل قبيحا، وحتى كأني لم أفرط عليه .

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Conjugation
Person PastPresentCommand
he هُوَ كالَمَيُكالِمُ—
she هِيَ كالَمَتتُكالِمُ—
they two (m.) هُما كالَمايُكالِمانِ—
they two (f.) هُما كالَمَتاتُكالِمانِ—
they (m.) هُمْ كالَمُوايُكالِمُونَ—
they (f.) هُنَّ كالَمْنَيُكالِمْنَ—
you (m.) أَنْتَ كالَمْتَتُكالِمُكالِمْ
you (f.) أَنْتِ كالَمْتِتُكالِمِينَكالِمِي
you two أَنْتُما كالَمْتُماتُكالِمانِكالِمَا
you (m. pl.) أَنْتُمْ كالَمْتُمتُكالِمُونَكالِمُوا
you (f. pl.) أَنْتُنَّ كالَمْتُنَّتُكالِمْنَكالِمْنَ
I أَنا كالَمْتُأُكالِمُ—
we نَحْنُ كالَمْنانُكالِمُ—

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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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