# قالب
## Arabic
### Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܩܠܒܝܕ (/⁠*qālobīḏ⁠/, “last”), from Ancient Greek καλοπόδιον (kalopódion, “last”), diminutive of καλόπους (kalópous, “last”), compound of κᾶλον (kâlon, “wood”) and πούς (poús, “foot”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /qaː.lab/, /qaː.lib/

### Noun

قَالَب or قالِب • (qālab or qālib) m (plural قَوَالِب (qawālib))
* form, mould, last (for casting shapes by it)
* (computing) template; boilerplate

#### Descendants

* Maltese: qaleb
* → Azerbaijani: qəlib
* → Bashkir: ҡалып (qalıp)
* → Catalan: gàlib
* → French: calibre (see there for further descendants)
* → Kazakh: қалып (qalyp)
* Kurdish:
    → Northern Kurdish: qalib
    → Central Kurdish: قاڵِب (qallib), قالِب (qalib)
    → Southern Kurdish: قاڵِب (qallib)
* → Medieval Latin: calibrum
* → Ottoman Turkish: قالب (kalıp)
** Turkish: kalıp
** → Armenian: ղալիբ (ġalib), ղալիպ (ġalip), կալիպ (kalip), խալիպ (xalip), կալըբ (kaləb)
** → Ladino: kalup
* → Persian: قالب (qâleb)
* → Russian: калы́пь (kalýpʹ), калы́бь (kalýbʹ), колы́пь (kolýpʹ), колы́бь (kolýbʹ) (via a Turkic language)
* → Spanish: gálibo
* → Classical Syriac: ܩܠܒܐ (qāləḇā)
* → Tatar: калып (qalıp)
* → Turkmen: galyp
* → Uyghur: قېلىپ (qëlip)
* → Uzbek: qolip

### References

* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قالب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 391
* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 256
* Freytag, Georg (1835) “قالب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 485
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “قالب”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, page 797
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “قالب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 918
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قالب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1051

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

Arabic قَالِب (qālib).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡaː.lib/, /ɡaː.lab/

### Noun

قالب • (gālib or gālab) m (plural قَوَالِب (gawālib))
* bakery pan, cake mold
* form, mould, last

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

From Arabic قَالِب (qālib).

### Noun

قالب • (kalıp, kalup) (plural قوالب (kavalıp))
* form, mould, last (for casting shapes by it)
* form, shape, arrangement something or someone has acquired
* trick, device, feint

#### Derived terms

* قالبلمق (kalıplamak, “to form, to mould”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: kalıp
* → Armenian: ղալիբ (ġalib), ղալիպ (ġalip), կալիպ (kalip), խալիպ (xalip), կալըբ (kaləb)
* → Ladino: kalup

### References

* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قالب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3592

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَالِب (qālib). Doublet of کالبد (kâlbod).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [qɑː.ˈliβ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [qɑː.lɪ́b]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [qɑː.lɪ́b]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [qɑː.lɪ́b]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [qɔː.líb̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [qɒː.léb̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [qɔ.líb]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

قالب • (qâleb) (plural قالب‌ها (qâleb-hâ))
* mould
* template
    قالب وردپرس ― qâleb-e vordpres ― WordPress template; WordPress theme
* form, shape
    شیطانی در قالب فرشتهšeytâni dar qâleb-e fereštea demon in the shape of an angel
* body (as opposed to soul)
* cake, block; counter for blocks of soap, cheese, etc.
    قالب صابون ― qâleb-e sâbun ― cake of soap
    قالب پنیر ― qâleb-e panir ― block of cheese

#### Descendants

* → Gujarati: કાલિબ (kālib)