كَلَامٌ speech in Arabic
كَلَامٌ is how you say “speech” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فيخرج كلامه كله نافعًا صالحًا،
so all his speech is beneficial and good,
كَلَامُهُ his speech
'Speech' with '-hu' (his) attached, nominative as the subject of 'comes out'. What issues from such a faster.
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More example sentences
الشعر هو من فنون المنشىء وهو كلام،
Poetry is among the arts of the writer, and it is speech,
كَلَامٌ speech
This indefinite noun is the predicate — 'it is speech / words'. Being the new comment, it stays indefinite, and the link 'is' is unwritten. The point made is that poetry is, at bottom, just crafted talk.
وبأن القرآن المنزل كلام الله تعالى غير مخلوق،
and that the revealed Quran is the uncreated word of Allah,
كَلَامُ word of
This is the predicate of the 'that'-clause — what the Quran IS — and it heads a possessive: 'the word OF God'. It takes the nominative as the clause's predicate (the 'anna' bends the subject, not this). As construct head it leans on the owner to come.
إلا أنك شكوتَ من إطالته بالأحاديث المسندة التي لا تليق به وبكلامٍ عن بعض المذكورين كثير قليل الفائدة،
However, you complained about its excessive length due to the chained hadiths that do not suit it, and about speech from some of the mentioned people that is lengthy but of little benefit.
وَبِكَلامٍ and with stories
The connector 'and' plus the preposition 'with', fused to an indefinite noun 'speech', the preposition forcing its ending. It adds a second cause of the complaint, linking the grievance to a further item.
وسيأتي الكلام على ما تيسر من هذا الكلام كله
The discussion on what is possible from all of this will come later.
الكَلَامُ the discussion
The al- makes this definite, 'the discussion'. It is the subject of the verb 'will come' just before it, placed after the verb in the usual order, and carries the -u subject ending.
وسيأتي الكلام على ما تيسر من هذا الكلام كله
The discussion on what is possible from all of this will come later.
الكَلَامِ the discussion
The al- makes this definite, 'the discussion', echoing the topic named earlier. Governed by the preposition 'from', it takes the -i post-preposition ending, and it heads a pairing with the totality word that follows.
فَهَذَا لَا يَرِدُ لِغَيْرِهِ مِنَ الْكَلَامِ،
So this does not occur for any other from the speech.
الْكَلَامِ the speech
The definite object of the explicative 'of', hence genitive after that relator. With 'al-' it names the general category, speech, within which this particular expression is said to be unique.