Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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كلف كلم كلو


3. ⇒ كالم

كَالَمَهُ i. q. نَاطَقَهُ. (TA in art. نطق.)


5. ⇒ تكلّم

تَكَلَّمَ غَنْهُ He spoke for him; syn. عَبَّرَ. (Ṣ, Mṣb, art. عبر.)


6. ⇒ تكالم

تَكَالَمَا They spoke, talked, or discoursed, each with the other. (Ṣ,* M.)


كَلِمَةٌ

كَلِمَةٌ A word: (Kull, 301:) an expression: (Ḳ:) a proposition: a sentence: [a saying:] an argument. (Kull.) An assertion: an expression of opinion.


كَلَامٌ

كَلَامٌ is a gen. n., applying to little and to much, or to few or many; (Ṣ, 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.

Root: كلم - Entry: كَلَامٌ Signification: A2

كَلَامٌ Speech; something spoken; [diction; language;] parlance; talk; discourse: (Mṣb, &c.:) a saying: a say: something said: in grammar, a sentence. الكَلِمُ الطَّيِّبُ: see طَيِّتٌ.

Root: كلم - Entry: كَلَامٌ Signification: A3

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.

Root: كلم - Entry: كَلَامٌ Signification: A4

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.)


كِلِّيمٌ

رَجُلٌ كِلِّيمٌ, like سِكِّيتّ [and حِدِّيثٌ] i. q. مِنْطِيقٌ. (Ibn-ʼAbbád, Z, TA.)


كُلْيَةٌ

كُلْيَةٌ of a bow: see أَبْهَرُ

Root: كلم - Entry: كُلْيَةٌ Signification: A2

of a مَزَادَة: see خُرْبَةٌ.


مُتَكَلِّمٌ

مُتَكَلِّمٌ A Muslim theologian. See عِلْمُ الكَلَامِ.


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