قالب

Arabic

Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܩܠܒܝܕ (/⁠*qālobīḏ⁠/, “last”), from Ancient Greek καλοπόδιον (kalopódion, “last”), diminutive of καλόπους (kalópous, “last”), compound of κᾶλον (kâlon, “wood”) and πούς (poús, “foot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qaː.lab/, less often IPA^(key): /qaː.lib/
  • IPA^(key): [ɡaːlab], IPA^(key): [ɡaːlɪb]

Noun

قَالَب • (qālab) m (plural قَوَالِب (qawālib))

1. form, mould, last (for casting shapes by it)
2. (computing) template; boilerplate

Declension

Declension of noun قَالَب (qālab)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَالَب qālab	الْقَالَب al-qālab	قَالَب qālab
Nominative	قَالَبٌ qālabun	الْقَالَبُ al-qālabu	قَالَبُ qālabu
Accusative	قَالَبًا qālaban	الْقَالَبَ al-qālaba	قَالَبَ qālaba
Genitive	قَالَبٍ qālabin	الْقَالَبِ al-qālabi	قَالَبِ qālabi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَالَبَيْن qālabayn	الْقَالَبَيْن al-qālabayn	قَالَبَيْ qālabay
Nominative	قَالَبَانِ qālabāni	الْقَالَبَانِ al-qālabāni	قَالَبَا qālabā
Accusative	قَالَبَيْنِ qālabayni	الْقَالَبَيْنِ al-qālabayni	قَالَبَيْ qālabay
Genitive	قَالَبَيْنِ qālabayni	الْقَالَبَيْنِ al-qālabayni	قَالَبَيْ qālabay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَوَالِب qawālib	الْقَوَالِب al-qawālib	قَوَالِب qawālib
Nominative	قَوَالِبُ qawālibu	الْقَوَالِبُ al-qawālibu	قَوَالِبُ qawālibu
Accusative	قَوَالِبَ qawāliba	الْقَوَالِبَ al-qawāliba	قَوَالِبَ qawāliba
Genitive	قَوَالِبَ qawāliba	الْقَوَالِبِ al-qawālibi	قَوَالِبِ qawālibi

Descendants

• → Bashkir: ҡалып (qalıp)
• → French: calibre (see there for further descendants)
• → Kazakh: қалып (qalyp),
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: qalib

  Central Kurdish: قاڵِب (qallib), قالِب (qalib)

  Southern Kurdish: قاڵِب (qallib)

• → Medieval Latin: calibrum
• → Ottoman Turkish: قالب (kalıp)
  • Turkish: kalıp
  • → Armenian: խալիպ (xalip)
• → Persian: قالب (qâleb)
• → Russian: калы́пь (kalýpʹ), калы́бь (kalýbʹ), колы́пь (kolýpʹ), колы́бь (kolýbʹ) (via a Turkic language)
• → Classical Syriac: ܩܠܒܐ (qāləḇā)
• → Tatar: калып (qalıp)
• → Uyghur: قېلىپ (qëlip),
• → Uzbek: qolip

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قالب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 391
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 256
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “قالب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 485
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “قالب”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 797
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “قالب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 918
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قالب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1051

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic قَالِب (qālib).

Noun

قالب • (kalıp, kalup) (plural قوالب (kavalıp))

1. form, mould, last (for casting shapes by it)
2. form, shape, arrangement something or someone has acquired
3. trick, device, feint

Derived terms

• قالبلمق (kalıplamak, “to form, to mould”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kalıp
• → Armenian: խալիպ (xalip)

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قالب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 3592

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Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَالِب (qālib). Doublet of کالبد (kâlbod).

Noun

قالب • (qâleb) (plural قالب‌ها (qâleb-hâ))

1. mould
2. template