السلام عليكم
Arabic
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Etymology
Cognate with Hebrew שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם (shalóm aleikhém).
Pronunciation
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Interjection
اَلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ • (as-salāmu ʕalaykum)
- peace be upon you (plural); good day; hello; hail
- السَّلامُ عَلَيْكُم — وَعَلَيْكُمُ السَّلامُ
- as-salāmu ʿalaykum — wa-ʿalaykumu s-salāmu
- Peace be upon you. — And upon you, too.
- (Islam) salaam alaikum, assalamu alaikum
- السَّلامُ عَلَيْكُم وَرَحْمَةُ اَللهِ وَبَرَكاتُهُ
- as-salāmu ʿalaykum wa-raḥmatu llāhi wa-barakātuhu
- Peace be upon you as well as God's mercy and blessings.
Alternative forms
- سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكُمْ (salāmun ʕalaykum)
Descendants
Descendants of السلام عليكم in other languages
- Albanian: selam alejkum
- Azerbaijani: əs-səlamu əleykum
- Bashkir: әссәләмәғәләйкүм (əssələməğələyküm)
- Bengali: আসসালামু আলাইকুম (assalamu alaikum), আস সালামু আলাইকুম (aś salamu alaikum), আস-সালামু আলাইকুম (aś-śalamu alaikum)
- Chechen: салам алейкум (salam alejkum), ассаламу ӏалайкум (assalamu ˀalajkum)
- Chinese:
- Czech: selam alejkum
- English: salaam alaikum, salam alaikum, salaam alaykum, salam alaykum, as-salaam alaikum, assalamu alaikum, assalamu alaykum, salaamu alaikum
- Finnish: as-salaam aleikum
- French: as-salam alaykum
- Galician: salam aleikum
- German: salam aleikum
- Greek: σαλάμ αλέκουμ (salám alékoum)
- Hausa: salamu alaikum
- Hazaragi: سلام علیکم (salām alaykum)
- Hebrew: סלאם עליכום (salám 'aléikum)
- Hindi: सलाम अलैकुम (salām alaikum)
- Hungarian: szálem alejkum
- Indonesian: assalamu alaikum, assalamualaikum
- Italian: salamelecco
- Japanese: アッサラーム・アライクム (assarāmu araikumu), アッサラーム・アレイクム (assarāmu-areikumu)
- Karachay-Balkar: ас саламу алейкум (as salamu aleykum)
- Kazakh: ассалаумағалейкум (assalaumağaleikum)
- Korean: 앗살라무 알라이쿰 (atsallamu allaikum)
- Kyrgyz: салам алейкүм (salam aleyküm)
- Lak: ссалам алейкум (s:alam aleykum)
- Lezgi: салам алейкум (salam alejkum)
- Malay: assalamualaikum
- Malayalam: അസ്സലാമു അലൈക്കും (assalāmu alaikkuṁ)
- Maltese: sliem għalikom
- Pashto: السلام علیکم (as-salám 'alékom), اسلام علیکم (asalám 'alékom)
- Persian: سلام علیکم (salâmo alaykom)
- Polish: salam alejkum
- Portuguese: salamaleque
- Romanian: al salamalaikum
- Russian: саля́м але́йкум (saljám aléjkum), сала́м але́йкум (salám aléjkum), ассала́му ’але́йкум (assalámu ’aléjkum)
- Serbo-Croatian: селам алејкум/selam alejkum
- Slovak: selam alejkum, salam alejkum
- Slovene: selam alejkum
- Tajik: салом алайкум (salom alaykum), ассалому алайкум (assalomu alaykum), салому алайкум (salomu alaykum), саломун алайкум (salomun alaykum)
- Tamil: அஸ்ஸலாமு அலைக்கும் (assalāmu alaikkum)
- Telugu: అస్సలం అలై కుం (assalaṁ alai kuṁ)
- Tatar: әссәламү галәйкүм (ässälamü ğaläyküm)
- Turkish: selamün aleyküm, selamünaleyküm
- Turkmen: salamaleýkim
- Urdu: سلام علیکم (salām alaikum)
- Uyghur: ئەسسالامۇ ئەلەيكۇم (essalamu eleykum), ئەسسالام ئەلەيكۇم (essalam eleykum)
- Uzbek: assalomu alaykum
See also
- اَلسَّلامُ عَلَيْك (as-salāmu ʕalayk) (greeting to one person)
- وَعَلَيْكُم السَّلَام (wa-ʿalaykum as-salām), وَعَلَيْكُمْ (wa-ʿalaykum) (answer to the greeting)
- عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلامُ (ʕalayhi s-salāmu) (Islamic eulogy)