kalam

Borrowed from Arabic كَلَام (kalām, “literary speech”).

kalam (uncountable)

1. (Islam) Speculative theology.

• mutakallim

• kalam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Kamal, Kamâl, Malak, Malka, kamal

• IPA^(key): /kaˈlam/ [kʌˈlʌm]
• Hyphenation: ka‧lam

kalám m

1. alternative form of galám

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkalam/ [ˈka.lam]
• Rhymes: -alam
• Syllabification: ka‧lam

From Arabic كَلَام (kalām, “discourse; talking, speaking”).

kalam (plural kalam-kalam)

1. (Islam) kalam: the scholastic, speculative, or rational study of Islamic theology (aqida).

Inherited from Malay kalam, from Arabic قَلَم (qalam, “pen”), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed”).

kalam (plural kalam-kalam)

1. calamus, quill
2. style, stylus (sharp stick for writing)

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kalam (plural kalam-kalam)

1. (archaic) male genital

Borrowed from Minangkabau [Term?].

kalam (plural kalam-kalam)

1. mixture of black sand with washed gold.

• “kalam”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Swahili kalamu.

kalam

1. pen

From Arabic قلم

kalam (plural kalam-kalam or kalam²)

1. pen

• Indonesian: kalam

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.lam/
• Rhymes: -alam
• Syllabification: ka‧lam

kalam

1. first-person singular present of kalać

kalam

1. romanization of 𒌦 (kalam)