كلما

Arabic

Etymology

كُلَّ (kulla, every) + مَا (, that).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kul.la.maː/
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Conjunction

كُلَّمَا • (kullamā)

  1. every time, whenever
    كُلَّمَا أَكَلْتُ التُّفَاحَ مَرِضْتُ.kullamā ʔakaltu t-tufāḥa mariḍtu.Whenever I eat apples, I get sick.
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 3:37:
      كُلَّمَا دَخَلَ عَلَيْهَا زَكَرِيَّا الْمِحْرَابَ وَجَدَ عِنْدَهَا رِزْقًا
      kullamā daḵala ʕalayhā zakariyyā l-miḥrāba wajada ʕindahā rizqan
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  2. the more…
    • a. 1064, اِبْن حَزْم اَلْأَنْدَلُسِيّ [ibn ḥazm al-ʔandalusiyy], اَلْأَخْلَاق وَٱلسِّيَر [al-ʔaḵlāq was-siyar], pages 77-78:
      وَبِالْجُمْلَةِ فَكُلَّمَا نَقَصَ الْعَقْلُ تَوَهَّمَ صَاحِبُهُ أَنَّهُ أَوْفَرُ النَّاسِ عَقْلًا وَأَكْمَلُ تَمْيِيزًا
      wabi-l-jumlati fakullamā naqaṣa l-ʕaqlu tawahhama ṣāḥibuhu ʔannahu ʔawfaru n-nāsi ʕaqlan waʔakmalu tamyīzan
      In sum, the weaker the intelligence the more the man imagines himself well endowed and in possession of excellent powers of perception
    • a. 1902, عَبْد الرَّحْمٰن اَلْكَوَاكِبِيّ [ʕabd ar-raḥmān al-kawākibiyy], طَبَائِع ٱلِٱسْتِبْدَاد وَمَصَارِع ٱلِٱسْتِعْبَاد, page 51:
      كُلَّمَا زَادَ الْمُسْتَبِدُّ ظُلْمًا وَٱعْتِسَافًا زَادَ خَوْفُهُ مِنْ رَعِيَّتِهِ وَحَتَّى مِنْ حَاشِيَتِهِ، وَحَتَّى مِنْ هَوَاجِسِهِ وَخَيَالَاتِهِ. وَأَكْثَرُ مَا تُخْتَمُ حَيَاةُ الْمُسْتَبِدِّ بِٱلْجُنُونِ التَّامِّ.
      kullamā zāda l-mustabiddu ẓulman waʕtisāfan zāda ḵawfuhu min raʕiyyatihi waḥattā min ḥāšiyatihi, waḥattā min hawājisihi waḵayālātihi. waʔakṯaru mā tuḵtamu ḥayātu l-mustabiddi bi-l-junūni t-tāmmi.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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