salaam aleikum, interjectional phrase
- Forms:
- Show more Also salaam aleikoem, salaam-a-leikum, salam alaikoem, and with initial capitals.
- Origin:
- ArabicShow more From Arabic as-salam alay-kum peace be with you, in use throughout the Muslim world.
Among Muslims: a greeting or benediction, ‘peace be with you’.
1964 L.G. Green Old Men Say 60Only a handful of Cape Malays now speak the language of their ancestors. ‘Salam alaikoem’ is often heard. ‘Peace be with you.’
1980 Cape Times 18 Oct. 6He first greeted the person answering his knock (Salaam Aleikoem) then he said he had a message (Garbar) of the passing of someone, and gave the name of the deceased and said who his nearest relatives were.
a greeting or benediction, ‘peace be with you’.
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