كَلَامٌ

is a gen. n., applying to little and to much, or to few or many; (S, TA;) to what is a singular and to what is a plural (TA.) It may therefore be rendered A saying, &c.; and sayings, or words: see an example voce أَفْكَلُ, in article فكل.

كَلَامٌ Speech; something spoken; [diction; language;] parlance; talk; discourse: (Msb, &c.:) a saying: a say: something said: in grammar, a sentence. الكَلِمُ الطَّيِّبُ: see طَيِّتٌ.

كَلَامٌ: also, a quasi-verbal noun for تكليم, sometimes governing as a verb, [like the verbal noun,] according to some of the grammarians; as in the following example:

قالوا كلامك هنداً وهى مصغية

يشفيك قلت صحيح ذاك لو كانا

(Sharh Shudhoor edh-Dhahab.) See إِسْمُ مَصْدَرٍ.

عِلْمُ الكَلَامِ [The theology of the Muslims;] a science in which one investigates the being and attributes of God, and the conditions of possible things with respect to creation and restitution, according to the rule of El-Islám; which last restriction is for the exclusion of the theology of the philosophers. (KT.)