salaam alaikum

English

Alternative forms

• salam alaikum, salaam alaykum, salam alaykum, as-salaam alaikum, assalamu alaikum, assalamu alaykum, salaamu alaikum

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ‎ (as-salāmu ʿalaykum, “peace be upon you”)

Pronunciation

• (India) IPA^(key): /səˈlɑːm əˌleɪkʊm/

Interjection

salaam alaikum

1. (Islam) A greeting said on meeting someone.

Related terms

• shalom aleichem
• shalom

Translations

peace be upon you (Muslim greeting)

• Albanian: selam alejkum
• Amharic: ሰላም (sälam)
• Arabic: اَلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ‎ (as-salāmu ʿalaykum)
• Azerbaijani: əs-səlamu əleykum
• Bashkir: әссәләмәғәләйкүм (ässälämäğäläyküm)
• Bengali: আসসালামু আলাইকুম (aśśalamu alaikum), আস সালামু আলাইকুম (aś śalamu alaikum), আস-সালামু আলাইকুম (aśô-śalamu alaikum)
• Chechen: салам алейкум (salam alejkum), ассаламу ӏалайкум (assalamu ʿalajkum)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薩拉姆·阿萊控, 萨拉姆·阿莱控 (sàlāmǔ āláikòng)

• Czech: selam alejkum
• Finnish: as-salaam aleikum
• French: as-salam alaykum
• Galician: salam aleikum
• German: as-salamu alaikum
• 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 (id)
• 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 (assalawmağaleykwm)
• Korean: 앗살라무 알라이쿰 (atsallamu allaikum)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: selamunaleykum (ku)

• Kyrgyz: салам алейкүм (salam aleyküm)
• Lak: ссалам алейкум (s:alam aleykum)
• Lezgi: салам алейкум (salam alejkum)
• Malay: assalamualaikum (ms)
• Malayalam: അസ്സലാമു അലൈക്കും (assalāmu alaikkuṃ)
• Maltese: sliem għalikom
• Pashto: سلام عليکم‎ (ps) (salām 'alékom), السلام عليکم‎ (asalám 'alékom)
• Persian: سلام علیکم‎ (salâm(on) aleykom)
• Polish: salam alejkum (pl)
• Portuguese: salamaleque (pt)
• Romanian: al salamalaikum
• Russian: саля́м але́йкум (saljám aléjkum), сала́м але́йкум (salám aléjkum), (prescribed) ассала́му 'але́йкум (assalámu 'aléjkum)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: селам алејкум

  Roman: selam alejkum

• Slovak: selam alejkum, salam alejkum
• Slovene: selam alejkum
• Spanish: salam
• Tajik: салом алайкум (tg) (salom alaykum), ассалому алайкум (assalomu alaykum), салому алайкум (salomu alaykum), саломун алайкум (salomun alaykum)
• Tamil: அஸ்ஸலாமு அலைக்கும் (assalāmu alaikkum)
• Tatar: әссәламү галәйкүм (ässälamü ğaläyküm)
• Tigrinya: ሰላም (sälam)
• Turkish: selamünaleyküm (tr)
• Turkmen: salamaleýkim
• Urdu: سلام علیکم‎ (salām alaikum)
• Uyghur: ئەسسالام ئەلەيكۇم‎ (essalam eleykum), ئەسسالامۇ ئەلەيكۇم‎ (essalamu eleykum)
• Uzbek: assalomu alaykum