قلم

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See also: فلم

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ق ل م (q-l-m).

Pronunciation

Verb

قَلَمَ (qalama) I, non-past يَقْلِمُ‎ (yaqlimu)

  1. to cut, to clip, to pare, to prune, to trim, to lop, to truncate, to snip, to cut back, to cut down
  2. to make stripes, to stripe
  3. to fleece, to fleece wool
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Intensive form II verb derived from form I verb قَلَمَ (qalama, to cut).

Pronunciation

Verb

قَلَّمَ (qallama) II, non-past يُقَلِّمُ‎ (yuqallimu)

  1. to cut much or frequently
  2. to striate, to stripe
Conjugation
References

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, reed). Nöldeke and Jeffery are convinced that it comes thence via Ge'ez ቀለም (ḳäläm, reed), while Leslau notes that ቀለም (ḳäläm, reed) could come from Arabic. But the meaning “reed” – referring to a plant – is not actually attested for the Arabic word, and given the peculiar semantics in Ge'ez where the word ቀለም (ḳäläm) is mixed into the root of ቀለመ (ḳälämä, to color, to stain, to write) and as well means “color”, “ink”, “inkstand”, as Leslau separates himself, a Ge'ez origin can explain why in Arabic the meaning is restricted to “pen” in the beginning compared with the Greek κάλαμος (kálamos) meaning “reed cane” in general.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qa.lam/
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Noun

قَلَم (qalamm (plural أَقْلَام (ʔaqlām))

  1. pen, reed pen
  2. pencil
    قَلَم رَصَاصqalam raṣāṣpencil
  3. writing, script, calligraphic style, ductus, handwriting
  4. style
  5. office, bureau, agency
  6. window, counter
  7. (commerce) item, entry
  8. stripe, streak, line, bar, stria
Declension
Descendants
  • Gulf Arabic: قلم
  • Persian: قَلَم (pen)

References

  • Ahrens, Karl (1930) “Christliches im Qoran. Eine Nachlese”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft[2] (in German), volume 84, page 24
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) “قَلَمٌ”, in The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 242–243
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) “qalama”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 428–429
  • Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden[3] (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 662–685
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft[4] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 50

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Noun

قَلْم (qalmm

  1. verbal noun of قَلَمَ (qalama) (form I)
Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “قلم”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[5] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 492
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قلم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[6], London: W.H. Allen, pages 853–854
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “قلم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 922

Gulf Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic قَلَم (qalam).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡələm/

Noun

قَلَم (qələmm (plural اَقْلام, ʾəqlam)

  1. pen
    Synonym: قلم حبر
  2. pencil
    Synonym: قلم رصاص

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic قَلَم (qalam).

Pronunciation

Noun

قَلَم (galamm (plural أَقْلام ‎(ʾaglām))

  1. pen
  2. pencil

Persian

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Etymology

From Arabic قَلَم (qalam), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, reed).

Noun

Dari قلم
Iranian Persian
Tajik қалам

قلم (qalam) (plural قلم‌ها (qalam-hâ))

  1. reed
  2. pen, reed pen
  3. (computing) font

Noun

قلم (qalam) (plural اقلام (aqlâm))

  1. (commerce) item, entry
    چندین قلم جنس در مغازه داریم.
    čandin qalam jens dar mağâze dârim.
    We have various kinds of articles (or goods) in our store.

Punjabi

Etymology

From Arabic قَلَم (qalam), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, reed).

Noun

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  1. pen

Declension

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Urdu

Etymology

From Arabic قَلَم (qalam), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, reed).

Noun

قلم (qalamf (Hindi spelling क़लम)

  1. pen
    1. (historical) reed pen
  2. reed

Declension

Declension of قلم
singular plural
direct قلم (qalam) قلمیں (qalamẽ)
oblique قلم (qalam) قلموں (qalamõ)
vocative قلم (qalam) قلمو (qalamo)