كَلِمَةِword (the)

Example sentences

• فيما لا يعنيك فإنك إذا تكلمت بالكلمة ملكتك ولم تملكها

  Do not speak about what does not concern you, for when you utter a word, it owns you and you do not own it.

  بِالْكَلِمَةِ — with the word. A preposition 'with/by' carrying a definite noun 'the word', 'with the word'. The verb of speaking idiomatically takes 'with'; the 'the' points to whatever specific utterance is meant.

  From: The Pilgrim's Conduct →

• إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَتَكَلَّمُ بِالْكَلِمَةِ يَضْحَكُ بِهَا جُلَسَاؤُهُ يَهْوِي بِهَا أَبْعَدَ مِنَ الثَّرَيَّا

  Indeed, a man speaks a word that makes his companions laugh by it, and by it he sinks farther than the Pleiades.

  بِالْكَلِمَةِ — by the word. One unit fusing a preposition 'with / by means of' onto a definite noun. It marks the instrument of the action, 'with the word', so the bi- assigns the means role and the al- makes that word a specific known one.

  From: Permissible Laughter and Conduct →