Indonesian edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic كَلِمَات (kalimāt, word, speech, statement).[1] Doublet of kalimah.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

kalimat (plural kalimat-kalimat, first-person possessive kalimatku, second-person possessive kalimatmu, third-person possessive kalimatnya)

  1. (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 pasifpassive sentence

Synonyms edit

  • ayat (Standard Malay)

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎[1], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC

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