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How would you pronounce Kalam?

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Icloud54 · 23/12/2017 12:43

It's a Arabic boys name. Just wondering if you saw it spelt, how would you pronounce it?

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Buxbaum · 23/12/2017 12:43

Kal - AHM.

KelzPaige · 23/12/2017 12:44

Cal-um

AmysTiara · 23/12/2017 12:46

I'd say Kay Lum

MaisyPops · 23/12/2017 12:47

Kal-am
But I've never seen the name before.

Rainybohoho · 23/12/2017 12:47

Kah-lahm

seven201 · 23/12/2017 12:48

Like Callum

Finola1step · 23/12/2017 12:50

Kah-lahm or Kah-lam. Definitely not Cal-lum

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 23/12/2017 12:51

Kay-lum

BarbaraOcumbungles · 23/12/2017 12:51

Kay lum

SoupDragon · 23/12/2017 12:53

Ca lam

So, like Callum/Calum but with am at the end rather than um.

AFistfulOfDolores · 23/12/2017 12:56

Cuh-LAM

Christmascardqueen · 23/12/2017 13:09

Kay lam
A life of correcting people....

May50 · 23/12/2017 13:24

Callum

CupOfFrothyCoffee · 23/12/2017 13:28

Callum

deptfordgirl · 23/12/2017 13:34

Id say Kay-lam if I didn't know.

Navegante · 23/12/2017 16:15

Kay-lum how is it pronounced?

Fekko · 23/12/2017 16:18

Callum?

Elllicam · 23/12/2017 16:22

Like Callum except with an am at the end.

Ceebs85 · 23/12/2017 16:24

Same as Callum.

How is it supposed to be pronounced?

gingerclementine · 23/12/2017 16:38

Ka- lam, like the first two syllables of calamity or Ka- lahm .

k2p2k2tog · 23/12/2017 17:39

Kah-lamb.

I'd probably wonder if his parents were trying to come up with a yoo-neek spelling of Calum though.

OliviaStabler · 23/12/2017 17:40

Cal - lamb

ems137 · 23/12/2017 17:43

I've got a nephew called this and we say Kay Lum

Knittedfairies · 23/12/2017 17:45

Cal-lam - like the first two syllables of 'calamity'.

zoomer445 · 23/12/2017 17:49

Kay - Lam

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