Arabic vocabulary
كَلاَمًا is how you say “speech” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَكَلاَمًا مَا هُوَ بِالشِّعْرِ
And speech that is not poetry.
وَكَلاَمًا — and speech. Opens with wa- 'and', adding this noun to what was heard before. It stands bare without 'the' to mean 'speech' in general, and its ending is the object case, marking it as another thing observed.
From: A Stranger Finds the Prophet →OpenArabic teaches words like كَلاَمًا through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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