kalimah

Inherited from Malay kalimah, from Arabic كَلِمَة (kalima, “speech, utterance, statement; word”). Doublet of kalimat.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /kaˈlimah/ [kaˈli.mah]
• Rhymes: -imah
• Syllabification: ka‧li‧mah

kalimah (plural kalimah-kalimah)

1. word
2. expression, remark, statement, utterance

• perkataan
• ucapan

• “kalimah”, 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

• kalimat

Borrowed from Arabic كَلِمَة (kalima).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈlimah/ [kaˈli.mah]
• Rhymes: -mah, -ah
• Hyphenation: ka‧li‧mah

kalimah (Jawi spelling کليمه, plural kalimah-kalimah or kalimah²)

1. (uncommon, except in kalimah syahadah) word, utterance

   Synonyms: perkataan, kata

2. (Islam, by extension) word of God in the Qur'an

• Asmah Haji Omar (2008), “MABBIM and the Development of Malay: Minimizing Geopolitical Divergences”, in Malay/Indonesian as a Language of Knowledge and Practical Communication Appraisal, Challenges and the Future‎^[1], page 9:

  For "sentence", it is kalimat in Indonesian. This word in Arabic is has varied but related meanings: word, sentence, discourse. One often hears this word or its morphological variant, kalimah, in the phrase kalimah syahadah, the obligatory pronouncement of the Muslim that he/she believes in the one and only God, Allah, and that Muhammad is His prophet. The Malays have taken kalimat/kalimah only in this holy context and in reference to Allah's word in the Quran. It is not even used to refer to the discourse of the prophet.

• "kalimah" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017