salaam

Etymology
From. , a borrowing from Hebrew.

Related terms

 * salaam alaikum

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ሰላም
 * Arabic:
 * Azerbaijani:, səlam
 * Bashkir: сәләм
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chechen: салам
 * Chinese:
 * Dungan: сэляму
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish: salaam
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: σαλάμ
 * Hebrew: סלאם
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: szálem
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese: サラーム
 * Kazakh: сәлем
 * Korean: 살람
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lak: салам
 * Lezgi: салам
 * Malay:
 * Marathi: सलाम
 * Ossetian: салам
 * Ottoman Turkish: سلام
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, salamo, salema
 * Punjabi:
 * Rohingya: sólam
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сѐла̄м
 * Roman:
 * Swahili: salaam,
 * Tajik: салом
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Tigrinya: ሰላም
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: salam, selam
 * Urdu: سَلام
 * Uyghur: سالام
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: xa-lam

Noun

 * 1) A low bow as a ceremonial act of deference.
 * 2) * 1840,, “On the Genius and Character of ” in John Wilson and , The Land of Burns, Glasgow: Blackie & Son, Volume 2, p.lxxv,
 * Finally, Josiah might have made his salaam to the Exciseman just as he was folding up that letter
 * 1) * 1895,, letter dated 14 August, 1895 in Glimpses of Bengal, London: Macmillan, 1921, pp.160-161,
 * My servant was late one morning, and I was greatly annoyed at his delay. He came up and stood before me with his usual salaam, and with a slight catch in his voice explained that his eight-year-old daughter had died last night.
 * My servant was late one morning, and I was greatly annoyed at his delay. He came up and stood before me with his usual salaam, and with a slight catch in his voice explained that his eight-year-old daughter had died last night.

Verb

 * 1)  To perform a salaam to (someone).

Etymology
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Interjection

 * 1) hello