قالب

From Classical Syriac ܩܠܒܝܕ‎ (/*qālobīḏ/, “last”), from Ancient Greek καλοπόδιον (kalopódion, “last”), diminutive of καλόπους (kalópous, “last”), compound of κᾶλον (kâlon, “wood”) and πούς (poús, “foot”).

• IPA^(key): /qaː.lab/, less often IPA^(key): /qaː.lib/
  • (Hejazi) IPA^(key): [ɡaːlab], IPA^(key): [ɡaːlɪb]

قَالَب • (qālab) m (plural قَوَالِب‎ (qawālib))

1. form, mould, last (for casting shapes by it)
2. (computing) template; boilerplate

• → Bashkir: ҡалып (qalïp)
• → French: calibre (see there for further descendants)
• → Kazakh: қалып (qalıp),
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: qalib

  Central Kurdish: قاڵِب‎ (qallib), قالِب‎ (qalib)

  Southern Kurdish: قاڵِب‎ (qallib)

• → Medieval Latin: calibrum
• → Ottoman Turkish: قالب‎ (kalıp)
  • Turkish: kalıp
  • → Armenian: խալիպ (xalip)
• → Persian: قالب‎ (qâleb)
• → Russian: калы́пь (kalýpʹ), калы́бь (kalýbʹ), колы́пь (kolýpʹ), колы́бь (kolýbʹ) (via a Turkic language)
• → Classical Syriac: ܩܠܒܐ‎ (qāləḇā)
• → Tatar: калып (qalıp)
• → Uyghur: قېلىپ‎ (qëlip),
• → Uzbek: qolip

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “قالب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 391
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 256
• Freytag, Georg (1835), “قالب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 485
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “قالب”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 797
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “قالب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 918
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “قالب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1051

From Arabic قَالِب‎ (qālib).

قالب • (kalıp, kalup) (plural قوالب‎)

1. form, mould, last (for casting shapes by it)
2. form, shape, arrangement something or someone has acquired
3. trick, device, feint

• قالبلمق‎ (kalıplamak, “to form, to mould”)

• Turkish: kalıp
• → Armenian: խալիպ (xalip)

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قالب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3592

Borrowed from Arabic قَالِب‎ (qālib). Doublet of کالبد‎ (kâlbod).

قالب • (qâleb) (plural قالب‌ها‎ (qâleb-hâ))

1. mould
2. template