salaam
English
interj
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic سَلَام (peace, hello) derived from Proto-Semitic *šalām- (peace).
Origin
Proto-Semitic
*šalām-
Gloss
peace
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
✌️ 🕊️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- س ل م Arabic
- سلام Arabic
- سَلَام Arabic
- सलाम Hindi
- سلام Persian
- сәлем Kazakh
- salam Azerbaijani
- ש־ל־ם Hebrew (modern)
- שלום Hebrew (modern)
- שלם Hebrew (modern)
- سلام Ottoman Turkish
- სალამი Georgian
- 色蘭 Chinese
- 薩拉姆 Chinese
- salaam Swahili
- sliem Maltese
- সালাম Bengali
- سلام Urdu
- سالام Uighur, Uyghur
- *šalām- Proto-Semitic
- שלם Aramaic
- שלמא Aramaic
- ܫܠܵܡܵܐ Aramaic
- سلام Panjabi, Punjabi
- ܫܠܡܐ Classical Syriac
- 𒁲 Akkadian
- 𒃻𒆷𒈬 Akkadian
- 𐤔𐤋𐤌 Phoenician
- salam ms-cla
- ሰሳም Amharic
- ሰላም Tigrinya
- سلام Sindhi
- सलामु Sindhi
- 𐩪𐩡𐩣 Old South Arabian
- ࠔࠋࠌ Samaritan Aramaic