meaning
to produce a sound; recite, utter aloud
semantic space · lipamanka
The semantic space of kalama contains all noises and sounds and any act of creating a noise or sound. Any sound from any source can be a kalama. Music is a kalama. A scream is kalama. The sound that a tree makes when it falls in the forest is a kalama. A sound doesn't have to travel through air to be a kalama: whale noises are kalama, and a heartbeat through a stethoscope is kalama. kalama could be an absolute pitch, or multiple. It could be sound designed to sound a certain way, or chaotic noise.
ku translations
sound100, noise79, tone50, bang27
pu verbatim
VERB to produce a sound; recite, utter aloud
usage
core · 100% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
Serbo-Croatian · галама galama ‘noise (of the human voice)’
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sitelen pona
kalamaemission modifier + “mouth”
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ucsur
U+F1915