Indonesian

Adjective

kalem

1. calm

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (Turkish kalem), from Arabic قَلَم ‎(qalam), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος ‎(kálamos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kǎlem/
• Hyphenation: ka‧lem

Noun

kàlem m ‎(Cyrillic spelling ка̀лем)

1. reel (frame with radial arms)

Declension

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish [Term?], from Arabic قَلَم ‎(qalam), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος ‎(kálamos).

Noun

kalem ‎(definite accusative kalemi, plural kalemler)

1. pen

Declension

Derived terms

• kalemlik ‎(“pencil case”)

Noun

kalem

1. possessive first-person singular , singular possession of kale