कलम

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /kə.ləm/,

कलम • (kalam) f

1. nuqtaless form of क़लम (qalam)

Borrowed from Arabic قَلَم (qalam), or from Sanskrit कलम (kalama), both from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed”). Compare Hindi क़लम (qalam).

• IPA^(key):
• Phonetic Devanagari: कलम्

कलम • (kalam)

1. pen

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɐ.lɐ.mɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ.l̪ɐ.mɐ/

According to the Uṇādi-sūtra, iv, p.84, from the root √kal (“to sound”).

कलम • (kalama) stem, m

1. a sort of rice (sown in May and June and ripening in December or January)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed”).

कलम • (kalama) stem, m

1. writing reed

Borrowed from Dravidian, ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *kaḷ-.

कलम • (kalama) stem, m

1. thief

• Monier Williams (1899) “कलम”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0260.
• Apte, Macdonell (2022) “कलम”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Sanskrit Dictionaries]