Arabic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qalam/

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

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “قلم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1976), “قلم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-001-8

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “قلم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek κάλαμος ‎(kálamos, “reed”).

Noun

قَلَم • ‎(qalam) m ‎(plural أَقْلَام ‎(ʾaqlām))

1. pen, reed pen
2. pencil

   قَلَم رَصَاص‎ ― qalam raṣāṣ ― pencil

3. writing, script
4. calligraphic style, ductus
5. handwriting
6. style
7. office, bureau, agency
8. window, counter
9. (commerce) item, entry
10. stripe, streak, line, bar, stria

Declension

Etymology 4

Noun

قَلْم • ‎(qalm) m

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

Declension

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic قَلَم ‎(qalam)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /galam/

Noun

قَلَم • ‎(galam) m (plural أَقْلام ‎(ʾaglām))

1. pen
2. pencil

Persian

Etymology

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

Noun

قلم • ‎(qalam)

1. reed
2. quill
3. pen, reed pen
4. (computing) font
5. kind, sort

   چندین قلم جنس در مغازه داریم.‎

   čandin qalam jens dar mağâze dârim.

   We have various kinds of articles (or goods) in our store.

Urdu

Etymology

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

Noun

قلم • ‎(qalam) m, f ‎(Hindi spelling क़लम)

1. pen, reed pen
2. reed