سلام

Semantic loan from Aramaic שְׁלָמָא / ܫܠܵܡܵܐ (šəlāmā, “wholeness, welfare; peace”, used as a greeting)

Cognate with Hebrew שלום (shalóm).

• IPA^(key): /sa.laːm/

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سَلَام • (salām) m

1. verbal noun of سَلِمَ (salima) (form I), well-being
2. peace
3. greeting

• ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ (s-salāmu ʕalaykum)
• وَعَلَيْكُمُ ٱلسَّلَامُ (waʕalaykumu s-salāmu)
• عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ (ʕalayhi s-salāmu)
• سَلَامُ ٱللَّٰهِ عَلَيْهِ (salāmu llāhi ʕalayhi)
• عَلَيْهِ ٱلصَّلَاةُ وَٱلسَّلَامُ (ʕalayhi ṣ-ṣalātu was-salāmu)

سَلَام • (salām)

1. salutation; greeting

• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 175

Belonging to the root س ل م (s-l-m).

• IPA^(key): /si.laːm/

سِلَام • (silām) m

1. verbal noun of سَالَمَ (sālama) (form III)

سِلَام • (silām) m

1. plural of variety of سَلِم (salim, “stones”), or alternative collective
2. plural of variety of سَلَْم (salam, “Acacia ehrenbergiana”)

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “سلم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

• سڵاو (səɫaːw)

From Arabic سَلَام (salām, “peace”).

• IPA^(key): /sælaːm/

سلام (sælaːm)

1. greeting
2. hello
3. hi

سلام (selâm)

1. hello

• սէլամ (selam) — Armeno-Turkish

Borrowed from Arabic سَلَام (salām).

سلام • (selam)

1. greetings

• سلاملق (selamlık, “selamlik”)

• Turkish: selam
• → Albanian: selam
• → Cappadocian Greek: σελάμι (selámi)

Borrowed from Arabic سَلَام (salām, “peace”).

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سلام • (salâm)

1. hello, hi, hiya

   سلام! ― salâm ― hello!

   سلام علیکم! ― salâm aleykom ― hello! (more formal)

سلام • (salâm)

1. salutation; greeting

   Synonym: درود (dorud)

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 114”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:

     به بارگاه تو چون باد را نباشد بار
     کی اتفاق مجال سلام ما افتد

     ba bārgāh-i tu čūn bād rā na-bāšad bār
     kay ittifāq-i majāl-i salām-i mā uftad

     When even the wind has no right to pass through your reception room,
     How should the opportunity for me to say hello ever come to pass?

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. (military) salute
3. (Islam) the salam uttered at the end of prayer

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “سلام”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “سلام”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Borrowed from Arabic سَلَام (salām).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /sə.läːmə/

سلام • (salām) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਸਲਾਮ)

1. salutation
2. greeting
3. (literally) peace

From Arabic سَلَام (salām).

سَلامُ • (salāmu) (Devanagari सलामु)

1. (used by Muslims) hello, hi

سَلامُ • (salāmu) m (Devanagari सलामु)

1. peace; greeting

From Arabic سَلام (salām).

• IPA^(key): /sa.laːm/, [saˈlæːm]

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سلام • (salām) m (plural سلامات (salāmāt))

1. peace, peacefulness

• السلام عليكم (as-salāmu ʕalēkom, “peace be upon you”)

• سەڵام (sellam)

From Arabic سَلَام (salām, “peace”).

• IPA^(key): (Ilami) /sæɫaːm/

g=m

سەلام (sælaːm)

1. greeting
2. hello
3. hi

Borrowed from Classical Persian سلام (salām), itself from Arabic سَلَام (salām).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sə.lɑːm/
• Rhymes: -ɑːm
• Hyphenation: سَ‧لام

سَلام • (salām) (Hindi spelling सलाम)

1. interjection used to greet or fare adieu to someone

   Clipping of السلام علیکم (al-salām 'alaikum, “hello, hi, hiya”).

   سَلام! ― salām! ― hello!

   سَلام عَلَیکُم!

   salām 'alaikum!

   hello!

سَلام • (salām) m (Hindi spelling सलाम)

1. greeting, salutation
2. regards

   اَبُّو کو سَلام دینا

   abbū ko salām denā

   Send [my] regards to your father.

3. a salute (chiefly military but not limited to).
4. (literally, rare) peace

• “سلام”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “سلام”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سلام”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.