See כלום on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "The popular folk etymology כְּ־ (k'-, “like”, comparative prefix) + *לוּם (lúm), a supposedly rare word meaning \"olive pit\", thus \"something as small as an olive pit; anything at all,\" is unsupported.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "כְּלוּם",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "k'lum",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "he",
"2": "pronoun",
"head": "כְּלוּם",
"tr": "k'lum"
},
"expansion": "כְּלוּם • (k'lum)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Hebrew",
"lang_code": "he",
"pos": "pron",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"anything"
],
"id": "en-כלום-he-pron-7gh0Fwt~",
"links": [
[
"anything",
"anything"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "שום דבר"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/klum/",
"tags": [
"Modern-Israeli-Hebrew"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/kă.ˈlum/",
"tags": [
"Tiberian-Hebrew"
]
},
{
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}
],
"word": "כלום"
}
{
"etymology_text": "The popular folk etymology כְּ־ (k'-, “like”, comparative prefix) + *לוּם (lúm), a supposedly rare word meaning \"olive pit\", thus \"something as small as an olive pit; anything at all,\" is unsupported.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "כְּלוּם",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "k'lum",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "he",
"2": "particle",
"head": "כְּלוּם",
"tr": "k'lum"
},
"expansion": "כְּלוּם • (k'lum)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Hebrew",
"lang_code": "he",
"pos": "particle",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "100 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Hebrew entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "100 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Hebrew particles",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "100 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Hebrew pronouns",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "100 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "100 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "A man sows a se'a but to gain several korim...? [i.e., Does a man sow a small amount for a reason other than to gain many times the original amount?]",
"text": "Talmud Bavli, Maseches Pesachim 87b\nכלום אדם זורע סאה אלא להכניס כמה כורין",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used to turn a statement of fact into a question of fact."
],
"id": "en-כלום-he-particle-yh8sAeoz",
"links": [
[
"statement",
"statement#English"
],
[
"question",
"question#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) Used to turn a statement of fact into a question of fact."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "הֲ־"
},
{
"word": "הֲאִם"
}
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/klum/",
"tags": [
"Modern-Israeli-Hebrew"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/kă.ˈlum/",
"tags": [
"Tiberian-Hebrew"
]
},
{
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}
],
"word": "כלום"
}
{
"categories": [
"Hebrew entries with incorrect language header",
"Hebrew lemmas",
"Hebrew particles",
"Hebrew pronouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_text": "The popular folk etymology כְּ־ (k'-, “like”, comparative prefix) + *לוּם (lúm), a supposedly rare word meaning \"olive pit\", thus \"something as small as an olive pit; anything at all,\" is unsupported.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "כְּלוּם",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "k'lum",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "he",
"2": "pronoun",
"head": "כְּלוּם",
"tr": "k'lum"
},
"expansion": "כְּלוּם • (k'lum)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Hebrew",
"lang_code": "he",
"pos": "pron",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"anything"
],
"links": [
[
"anything",
"anything"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/klum/",
"tags": [
"Modern-Israeli-Hebrew"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/kă.ˈlum/",
"tags": [
"Tiberian-Hebrew"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q9288 (heb)-YaronSh-כלום.wav",
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}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "שום דבר"
}
],
"word": "כלום"
}
{
"categories": [
"Hebrew entries with incorrect language header",
"Hebrew lemmas",
"Hebrew particles",
"Hebrew pronouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_text": "The popular folk etymology כְּ־ (k'-, “like”, comparative prefix) + *לוּם (lúm), a supposedly rare word meaning \"olive pit\", thus \"something as small as an olive pit; anything at all,\" is unsupported.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "כְּלוּם",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "k'lum",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "he",
"2": "particle",
"head": "כְּלוּם",
"tr": "k'lum"
},
"expansion": "כְּלוּם • (k'lum)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Hebrew",
"lang_code": "he",
"pos": "particle",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Hebrew terms with archaic senses",
"Hebrew terms with quotations",
"Requests for transliteration of Hebrew quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "A man sows a se'a but to gain several korim...? [i.e., Does a man sow a small amount for a reason other than to gain many times the original amount?]",
"text": "Talmud Bavli, Maseches Pesachim 87b\nכלום אדם זורע סאה אלא להכניס כמה כורין",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used to turn a statement of fact into a question of fact."
],
"links": [
[
"statement",
"statement#English"
],
[
"question",
"question#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) Used to turn a statement of fact into a question of fact."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/klum/",
"tags": [
"Modern-Israeli-Hebrew"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/kă.ˈlum/",
"tags": [
"Tiberian-Hebrew"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q9288 (heb)-YaronSh-כלום.wav",
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}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "הֲ־"
},
{
"word": "הֲאִם"
}
],
"word": "כלום"
}
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