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Indonesian
Etymology
From Arabic كَلِمَات (kalimāt, “word, speech, statement”). Doublet of kalimah.
Pronunciation
Noun
kalimat (plural kalimat-kalimat, first-person possessive kalimatku, second-person possessive kalimatmu, third-person possessive kalimatnya)
- (grammar) sentence: a grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop.
- kalimat pasif ― passive sentence
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References
- ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC
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