κάλαμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱalh₂mos. Cognates include Latin culmus, Russian солома (soloma), and Old English healm (English haulm).

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /kálamos/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /kálamos/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /kálamos/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /kálamos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /kálamos/

Noun

κάλαμος (genitive καλάμου) m, second declension; (kalamos)

1. a reed
2. anything made of reed or cane
   1. staff, rod
   2. measuring rod
   3. pen
   4. flute
   5. shaft of an arrow
3. collectively, of plants, which are neither bush, nor tree

Inflection

Second declension of κάλαμος, καλάμου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	κάλαμος	καλάμω	κάλαμοι
Genitive	καλάμου	καλάμοιν	καλάμων
Dative	καλάμῳ	καλάμοιν	καλάμοις
Accusative	κάλαμον	καλάμω	καλάμους
Vocative	κάλαμε	καλάμω	κάλαμοι

Descendants

• Arabic: قَلَم (qálam)
  • Bashkir: ҡәләм (qäläm)
  • Hindi: क़लम (qalam)
  • Persian: قلم (qalam)
  • Turkish: kalem
    • Serbo-Croatian: kàlem / ка̀лем
  • Urdu: قلم (qalam)
  • Uyghur: قەلەم (qelem)

• Greek: καλάμι (kalámi)
• Latin: calamus
• Sanskrit: कलम (kalama)

References

• LSJ
• BDAG
• Strong’s concordance number: G2563

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Greek

Noun

κάλαμος (kálamos) m,   plural κάλαμοι

1. reed pen
2. reed, cane

Related terms

• καλάμι (kalámi) n (shin, reed)