kalima
word, remark, speech
كَلِمَة
Word
Noun · pattern فَعِلَةRoot
ك ل مForms
- Plural
- كَلِم
In the library
فَتَلَقَّىٰ آدَمُ مِنْ رَبِّهِ كَلِمَاتٍ فَتَابَ عَلَيْهِ ۚ إِنَّهُ هُوَ التَّوَّابُ الرَّحِيمُ
The Qurʾān, page 6 →From the same root
- كلمkilometer(s)
- كَلَّمَspeak
- كَلْمwound, cut
- كالَمَspeak with
- تَكَلَّمَspeak, talk, discuss
- كَلامspeech, statement, remark, talk, saying
- كَلِيمspokesman
- كَلِيمwounded
- تَكَلُّمconversation, discussion
- كِلِيمcarpet, rug
- كَلامِيّverbal, spoken, oral
- تِكْلامeloquent, garrulous
- تِكِلّامeloquent, garrulous
- مُتَكَلِّمspeaking, speaker, spokesman
- كِلِّمانِيّeloquent
- كُلَيْماتfew remarks, few words
- كَلَمانِيّeloquent
- مُكالَمَةconversation, discussion
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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