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reed pen; ‎pen; pencil; crayon; style, pistil (bot.) writing, script, calligraphic style, ductus; handwriting; style; ‎office, bureau, agency, department; window, counter; item, entry (com.); (EgAr) stripe, streak, ‎line; (EgAr) slap in the face – WehrCowan1979.

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The word, central to the idea of a ‘written’ revelation and hence scriptuality, is ‎one of only 17 words in the Q which, ultimately, are of Grk origin.

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Q 68:1, 96:4, and (in the pl. ʔaqlām) 31:27, 3:44 ‘pen’, or ‘the reed from which pens were made’ (Jeffrey 1938)

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‎‎▪ Jeffery1938, 242-43: »It means a ‘pen’ in all the passages save iii, 39, where it refers to the ‎reeds which were cast to decide who should have care of the maiden Maryam, and where the ‎ʔaqlām, of course, stands for the ῥάβδοι rhábdoi, of the Protev. Jacobi, ix.¹ – The native authorities take the word ‎from qlm ‘to cut’ (cf. LA, xv, 392), but this is only folk-etymology, for the word is the ‎Grk kálamos, a ‘reed’ and then a ‘pen’,² though ‎coming through some Sem form. kálamos was borrowed into Aram, where we find ‎קולםוס ‏‎, Syr ‎‎qlmā, but it was from the Eth [Gz] qalam, as Nöldeke, Neue Beiträge, 50, has shown, that the ‎word came into Ar. It was an early borrowing, for it is found both in the old poetry and in the ‎SAr inscriptions (Rossini, Glossarium, 232, for qlm as calamus odoratus).«
▪ EALL (Gutas, ‎‎“Greek Loanwords”): a loan (from ???) that goes back to Greek kálamos.

1. In ‎Tischendorf, Evangelia Apocrypha, 1876, p. 18. 2. kálamos is a good Indo-European word, ‎as is evident from the Skr kalama; Norse halmr; Slav slama; cf. Boissacq, 397.

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► ‏‎qalamī, adj., penned, handwritten: nsb-adj.
► miqlamaẗ, pl. ‑āt, n., pen ‎case: n.instr.

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