کلام

See also: كلام

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَلَام (kalām).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [kʰä.lɑ́ːm]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [kʰä.lɑ́ːm]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [kʰä.lɔ́ːm]

Readings
Classical reading? kalām
Dari reading? kalām
Iranian reading? kalâm
Tajik reading? kalom

Noun

کَلام • (kalâm)

  1. 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)
  2. (Islam, theology) scholastic theology; Short for علم کلام (elm-e kalâm).

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَلَام (kalām).

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /kə.lɑːm/
  • Audio (PK)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːm

Noun

کَلام • (kalām) m (Hindi spelling कलाम)

  1. speech
  2. word
  3. discourse

References
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “کلام”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • “کلام”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “کلام”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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