قلم

From the root ق ل م‎ (q-l-m).

• IPA^(key): /qa.la.ma/

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

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

• IPA^(key): /qal.la.ma/

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

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

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

From Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed”). Nöldeke and Jeffery are convinced that it comes thence via Ge'ez ቀለም (ḳäläm, “reed”), while Leslau notes that ቀለም (ḳäläm, “reed”) could come from Arabic. But the meaning “reed” – referring to a plant – is not actually attested for the Arabic word, and given the peculiar semantics in Ge'ez where the word ቀለም (ḳäläm) is mixed into the root of ቀለመ (ḳälämä, “to color, to stain, to write”) and as well means “color”, “ink”, “inkstand”, as Leslau separates himself, a Ge'ez origin can explain why in Arabic the meaning is restricted to “pen” in the beginning compared with the Greek κάλαμος (kálamos) meaning “reed cane” in general.

• IPA^(key): /qa.lam/
  • (Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ʔa.lam/
  • (Hijazi) IPA^(key): /ɡa.lam/
  • (Levantine) IPA^(key): /ʔa.lam/

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

1. pen, reed pen
2. pencil

   ‏قَلَم رَصَاص‎‎ ― qalam raṣāṣ ― pencil

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

• Jeffery, Arthur (1938), “قَلَمٌ”, in The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 242–243
• Leslau, Wolf (1991), “qalama”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 428–429
• Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 662–685
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 50

• IPA^(key): /qalm/

قَلْم • (qalm) m

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

• Freytag, Georg (1835), “قلم”, 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, pages 492
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “قلم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, pages 853–854
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “قلم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 922

From Arabic قَلَم‎ (qalam).

• IPA^(key): /ɡalam/

قَلَم • (galam) m

(plural أَقْلام‎ ‎(ʾaglām))

1. pen
2. pencil

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

قلم • (qalam) (plural قلم‌ها‎ (qalam-hâ))

1. reed
2. pen, reed pen
3. (computing) font

قلم • (qalam) (plural اقلام‎ (aqlâm))

1. (commerce) item, entry

   ‏چندین قلم جنس در مغازه داریم.‎‎

   čandin qalam jens dar mağâze dârim.

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

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

قلم • (qalam) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਕ਼ਲਮ)

1. pen

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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

قلم • (qalam) f (Hindi spelling क़लम)

1. pen
   1. (historical) reed pen
2. reed