shalom

See also: Shalom

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁלוֹם‎ (šālóm, “peace, well-being; Hello, good-bye”). Doublet of salaam, the same word via Arabic.

Interjection

shalom

1. A traditional Jewish greeting or farewell.

Translations

transliteration of the Jewish greeting or farewell

• Arabic: شَلُوم‎ (šalōm)
• Armenian: շալոմ (šalom)
• Belarusian: шало́м (šalóm)
• Bulgarian: шало́м (šalóm)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沙洛姆 (shāluòmǔ), 沙龍／沙龙 (zh) (shālóng)

• Czech: šalóm
• Dutch: sjalom (nl)
• Finnish: šalom
• French: chalôm
• Georgian: შალომი (šalomi)
• German: Schalom (de)
• Greek: σαλόμ (salóm)
• Hebrew: שָׁלוֹם‎ (he) (shalóm)
• Hindi: शालोम (śālom)
• Hungarian: salom
• Japanese: シャローム (sharōmu), シャーローム (shārōmu)
• Korean: 샬롬 (syallom)
• Ladino: shalom, shalóm
• Lithuanian: šalom
• Macedonian: шало́м (šalóm)
• Persian: شالوم‎ (šâlom)
• Polish: szalom (pl)
• Portuguese: shalom (pt)
• Russian: шало́м (ru) (šalóm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шалом

  Roman: šalom

• Slovak: šalóm
• Slovene: šalom
• Spanish: shalom (es)
• Turkish: şalom
• Ukrainian: шало́м (šalóm)
• Yiddish: שלום‎ (sholem)

Noun

shalom (countable and uncountable, plural shaloms)

1. (countable) The traditional Jewish greeting of "shalom".
   • 2014, David Morrell, The League of Night and Fog

     He exchanged shaloms with a group of young people coming out of the synagogue and turned left toward a corner.

2. (Judaism, uncountable) Peace. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Verb

shalom (third-person singular simple present shaloms, present participle shaloming, simple past and past participle shalomed)

1. To greet somebody with "shalom".

Anagrams

• halmos, omlahs

Portuguese

Interjection

shalom

1. shalom (Jewish greeting or farewell)