کلام

See also: كلام‎

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَلَام‎ (kalām).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /kalɑːm/

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /kalɑːm/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /kælɒːm/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /kalɔm/

Noun

کلام • (kalâm)

speech; word; utterance; talk
Synonym: سخن‎ (soxan)
- c. 1380, Jahān Malik Khātūn, “Introduction”, in دیوان جهان [Divān-i Jahān]‎:
  ‏گاه اعجاز عیسوی را در سخن طفل تعبیه کرد و گاه سبب نجات دنیوی و اخروی در کلام امییی به ودیعت نهاد.‎‎
  gāh i'jāz-i īsawī rā dar suxan-i tifl ta'bīya kard u gāh sabab-i najāt-i dunyawī u uxrawī dar kalām-i amīnī ba wadī'at nihād.
  He once arranged the miracle of Jesus in the words of a child [the Quranic miracle of the child Jesus who brought clay birds to life with his breath], and He once deposited the means for salvation in this world and the world to come in secure speech [i.e. the Quran].
  (Classical Persian romanization)
(Islam, theology) scholastic theology; Short for ‎ (elm-e kalâm).

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَلَام‎ (kalām).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kə.lɑːm/

(Deccani) IPA^(key): /kə.lɑːm/

Noun

کلام • (kalām) m (Hindi spelling कलाम)

References

Platts, John T. (1884), “کلام”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
“کلام”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
“کلام”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.

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