السلام عليكم
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Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ • (as-salāmu ʕalaykum)
- peace be upon you; good day; hello; hail, salaam alaikum, assalamu alaikum
- السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ — وَعَلَيْكُمُ ٱلسَّلَامُ
- as-salāmu ʕalaykum — wa-ʕalaykumu s-salāmu
- Peace be upon you. — And upon you, too.
Usage notes edit
- Though grammatically plural, this form of the greeting is predominantly also used towards one person.
Alternative forms edit
- السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ ٱللَّهِ وَبَرَكاتُهُ (as-salāmu ʕalaykum wa-raḥmatu llāhi wa-barakātuhu, “Peace be upon you as well as God's mercy and blessings.”)
- سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكُمْ (salāmun ʕalaykum)
Descendants edit
- Maltese: is-sliem għalikom
- → Afar: assaláamu qaléykum
- → Albanian: selam alejkum
- → Azerbaijani: əs-səlamu əleykum
- → Bashkir: әссәләмәғәләйкүм (əssələməğələyküm)
- → Bengali: আসসালামু আলাইকুম (assalamu alaikum), আস সালামু আলাইকুম (aś salamu alaikum), আস-সালামু আলাইকুম (as-salamu alaikum)
- → Bulgarian: сала́м але́йкум (salám aléjkum)
- → Central Kurdish: سەلامو عەلەیکوم (selamu 'eleykum)
- → 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
- → 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), ассалаумағалейкүм (assalaumağaleiküm)
- → 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)
- → Pashto: السلام علیکم (as-salam 'alekom), اسلام علیکم (asalam 'alekom)
- → Persian: سَلام عَلِیْکُم (salâm 'aleykom)
- → Polish: salam alejkum
- → Portuguese: salamaleque
- → Romanian: al salamalaikum
- → Russian: саля́м але́йкум (saljám aléjkum), сала́м але́йкум (salám aléjkum); ассала́му ’але́йкум (assalámu ’aléjkum)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: селам алејкум
- Latin script: selam alejkum
- → Sicilian: salamaliccu
- → Slovak: selam alejkum, salam alejkum
- → Slovene: selam alejkum
- → Spanish: nzala malekum, nsala malekum, nsala malekun
- → Southern Kurdish: سەڵام عەلێیکوم (sæɫaːm a'aleykum)
- → 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: سَلام عَلَیکُم (salām 'alaikum)
- → Uyghur: ئەسسالامۇ ئەلەيكۇم (essalamu eleykum), ئەسسالام ئەلەيكۇم (essalam eleykum)
- → Uzbek: assalomu alaykum
See also edit
- السَّلامُ عَلَيْكَ (as-salāmu ʕalayka)
- وَعَلَيْكُمُ ٱلسَّلَامُ (waʕalaykumu s-salāmu), وَعَلَيْكُمْ (wa-ʕalaykum) (answer to the greeting)
- عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلامُ (ʕalayhi s-salāmu) (Islamic eulogy)