Fun fact: Arabic قلم “pen” is a loan from Greek κάλαμος, which originally meant “reed”, and was semantically extended to anything made of reed, like a rod, flute, or pen. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/κάλαμος#Ancient_Greek

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#Arabic qalam قَلَم ‘pen, pencil, reed pen (traditionally), calligraphic style’

#Haida ḵʼáalaangw ‘pen, pencil, paintbrush made from porcupine quills (traditionally)’
https://youtu.be/4DKH-12iFoA?t=3

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