Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /kálamos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kálamos/

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

Noun

κάλαμος • ‎(kálamos) m ‎(genitive καλάμου); second declension

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

Descendants

• Greek: καλάμι ‎(kalámi)
• → Arabic: قَلَم ‎(qalam)
  • → Bashkir: ҡәләм ‎(qäläm)
  • → Persian: قلم ‎(qalam)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: قلم ‎(kalem)
      • Turkish: kalem
      • → Serbo-Croatian: kàlem / ка̀лем
    • → Hindustani:

      Hindi: क़लम ‎(qalam)

      Urdu: قلم ‎(qalam)

    • → Uyghur: قەلەم ‎(qelem)
  • → Swahili: kalamu
• → Hebrew: קולמוס ‎(kulmus), קלמרין ‎(kalmarin) (> קלמר ‎(kalmar))
• → Latin: calamus
• → Sanskrit: कलम ‎(kalama)

References

• κάλαμος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κάλαμος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «κάλαμος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• κάλαμος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2563”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «κάλαμος» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fishing-rod idem, page 323.
  • pen idem, page 602.
  • reed idem, page 683.
  • rush idem, page 727.
  • sedge idem, page 748.
  • straw idem, page 823.
  • stubble idem, page 828.

Greek

Noun

κάλαμος • ‎(kálamos) m ‎(plural κάλαμοι)

1. reed pen
2. reed, cane

Declension

Related terms

• καλαμιά f ‎(kalamiá, “reed”)
• καλαμάκι n ‎(kalamáki, “small rod, skewer”)
• καλάμι n ‎(kalámi, “reed, fishing rod, shin”)

External links

• κάλαμος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el