Where does “kalimat” come from?

kalimat (Indonesian) comes from Malay kalimat, from Classical Malay كَلِمَات, from Arabic كلمة, from Arabic ل, from Proto-Semitic *lV- — for, to.

kalimat (Indonesian): 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

Definitions

  1. 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

Ancestry of “kalimat”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaykalimatsentence
2Classical Malayكَلِمَات—
3Arabicكلمةspeech, utterance, statement; word
4Arabicلto, for, belonging to; لَـ •; Used to express...
5Proto-Semitic*lV-for, to
Every word from Proto-Semitic *lV- →Every word from Arabic ل →Every word from Arabic كلمة →