kalimah

Inherited from Malay kalimah, from Arabic كَلِمَة (kalima, “speech, utterance, statement; word”). Doublet of kalimat.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /kaˈlimah/ [kaˈli.mah]
• Rhymes: -imah
• Syllabification: ka‧li‧mah

kalimah (plural kalimah-kalimah)

1. word
2. expression, remark, statement, utterance

• perkataan
• ucapan

• “kalimah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Arabic كَلِمَة (kalima).

kalimah (Jawi spelling کلمه, plural kalimah-kalimah)

1. word

• “kalimah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.