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Meaning 1
A respectful ceremonial greeting used mostly by Muslims.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
salaam
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/səˈlɑːm/
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rhymes with -ɑːm
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CMU ARPABET: S AH0 L AA1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname.
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noun
Meaning 3
A low bow as a ceremonial act of deference.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 1840, John Wilson, “On the Genius and Character of Burns” in John Wilson and Robert Chambers, 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 [...]
- 1895, Rabindranath Tagore, 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.
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verb
Meaning 4
To perform a salaam to (someone).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
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noun
Meaning 5
a deep bow; a Muslim form of salutation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: bow, bowing, obeisance
verb
Meaning 6
greet with a salaam
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: salute
History
Etymology
From Arabic سَلَام (salām, “peace”). Doublet of shalom, a borrowing from Hebrew.
Across languages
Translations
58 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: selam — a Muslim greeting
- Amharic: ሰላም (sälam) — a Muslim greeting
- Arabic: سَلَام (salām) — a Muslim greeting
- Azerbaijani: salam — a Muslim greeting
- Azerbaijani: səlam — a Muslim greeting
- Bashkir: сәләм (sələm) — a Muslim greeting
- Bengali: সালাম (salam) — a Muslim greeting
- Bulgarian: селя́м (seljám) — a Muslim greeting
- Chechen: салам (salam) — a Muslim greeting
- Chinese: сэляму (seliamu) — a Muslim greeting
- Chinese Mandarin: 薩拉姆 /萨拉姆 (sàlāmǔ) — a Muslim greeting
- Chinese Mandarin: 色蘭 /色兰 (sèlán) — a Muslim greeting
- Finnish: salaam — a Muslim greeting
- French: salam — a Muslim greeting
- German: salem — a Muslim greeting
- Greek: σαλάμ (salám) — a Muslim greeting
- Hebrew: סלאם (salám) — a Muslim greeting
- Hindi: सलाम (salām) — a Muslim greeting
- Hungarian: szálem — a Muslim greeting
- Indonesian: salam — a Muslim greeting
- Japanese: サラーム (sarāmu) — a Muslim greeting
- Kazakh: сәлем (sälem) — a Muslim greeting
- Korean: 살람 (sallam) — a Muslim greeting
- Northern Kurdish: selam — a Muslim greeting
- Kyrgyz: салам (salam) — a Muslim greeting
- Lak: салам (salam) — a Muslim greeting
- Lezgi: салам (salam) — a Muslim greeting
- Malay: salam — a Muslim greeting
- Marathi: सलाम (salām) — a Muslim greeting
- Ossetian: салам (salam) — a Muslim greeting
- Pashto: سلام (salām) — a Muslim greeting
- Persian: سَلام (salâm) — a Muslim greeting
- Polish: salam — a Muslim greeting
- Portuguese: salama — a Muslim greeting
- Portuguese: salamo — a Muslim greeting
- Portuguese: salema — a Muslim greeting
- Punjabi: ਸਲਾਮ (salām) — a Muslim greeting
- Rohingya: sólam — a Muslim greeting
- Russian: саля́м (saljám) — a Muslim greeting
- Russian: селя́м (seljám) — a Muslim greeting
- Russian: сала́м (salám) — a Muslim greeting
- Russian: сало́м (salóm) — a Muslim greeting
- Serbo-Croatian: сѐла̄м — a Muslim greeting
- Serbo-Croatian: sèlām — a Muslim greeting
- Swahili: salaam — a Muslim greeting
- Swahili: salamu — a Muslim greeting
- Tajik: салом (salom) — a Muslim greeting
- Tatar: сәлам (sälam) — a Muslim greeting
- Telugu: సలాము (salāmu) — a Muslim greeting
- Tigrinya: ሰላም (sälam) — a Muslim greeting
- Turkish: selam — a Muslim greeting
- Ottoman Turkish: سلام (selam) — a Muslim greeting
- Turkmen: salam — a Muslim greeting
- Turkmen: selam — a Muslim greeting
- Urdu: سَلام (salām) — a Muslim greeting
- Uyghur: سالام (salam) — a Muslim greeting
- Uzbek: salom — a Muslim greeting
- Vietnamese: xa-lam — a Muslim greeting
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