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Salām (Arabic Arabic (العربية al-ʿarabīyah, ( Arabic pronunciation ) or عربي ʿarabī) is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages such as Hebrew and the Neo-Aramaic languages. Arabic has more speakers than any other language in the Semitic language family. It is spoken by more than 280 million: السلام Salaam) may refer to:
- Salām, the Arabic word for "peace", often used as a greeting. See S-L-M Shin-Lamedh-Mem is the triconsonantal root of many Semitic words, and many of those words are used as names. The root itself translates as "whole, safe, intact" for an overview.
- As-Salam is one of the 99 names of God in the Qur'an The 99 Names of Allah, also known as The 99 Most Beautiful Names of God , are the names of God (specifically, attributes) by which Muslims regard God and which are traditionally maintained as described in the Qur'ān, and Sunnah, amongst other places. There is, according to hadith, a special group of 99 names but no enumeration of them. Thus the
As a given name
- Abdus Salam Mohammad Abdus Salam (January 29, 1926; Jhang, Punjab, British Raj (present-day Pakistan) – November 21, 1996; Oxford, England) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist, astrophysicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work in Electro-Weak Theory. Salam, Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg shared the prize for this discovery. Salam holds the, Nobel Laureate in Physics
- Kawther Salam, Palestinian journalist
- Saeb Salam
- Mohammed Ahmed Salam Al Khateeb
- Mullah Salam
- Salaam bin Said Al Shaksy
- Ephraim Salaam, American football player
- Rashaan Salaam, American football player
- Salaam Remi
- short for Abd as-Salam Abd as-Salam (Arabic: عبد السلام is a male Muslim honorific or given name, built on the Arabic words Abd, al- and Salam. The name means "servant of the All-peaceable", as-Salam being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names
Places
- Al Salam camp, a refugee camp outside Al-Fashir, Sudan
- As-Salam, a neighborhood of Tulkarm Tulkarm or Tulkarem is a Palestinian small city in the Tulkarm Governorate in the extreme northwestern West Bank and North-Central Israel. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Tulkarm city and the adjacent refugee camp had a population of approximately 58,962 inhabitants at mid-year 2006. Its land area consists of 28,793, a city in the Palestinian territories
- Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam , formerly Mzizima, is the largest city in Tanzania. It is also the country's richest city and a regionally important economic centre. Dar es Salaam is actually an administrative province within Tanzania, and consists of three local government areas or administrative districts: Kinondoni to the north, Ilala in the center of the, the largest city in Tanzania
- Salam, Mali
- Wadi-us-Salaam, a cemetery
Brands, proper names
Popular culture
See also
- El Salam Maritime Transport
- Saleem (disambiguation)
- Abd as-Salam (disambiguation)
- Aloha Aloha in the Hawaiian language means affection, love, peace, compassion and mercy. Since the middle of the 19th century, it also has come to be used as an English greeting to say [goodbye] and hello. Currently, it is mostly used in the sense of hello; however, it is used as the above has a similar meaning
- Namaste Namaste is a common spoken greeting or salutation used in India and Nepal. It has multi-religious or else common usage where it may simply mean "I bow to you." The word is derived from Sanskrit namas, to bow, give obeisance or reverential salutation, and te, "to you." has a similar meaning
- Mahalo Mahalo is a Hawaiian word meaning thanks, gratitude, admiration, praise, esteem, regards, respects. According to the Pukui and Elbert Hawaiian Dictionary, it is derived from the Proto-Polynesian masalo has a similar meaning
- Peace Peace describes a society or a relationship that is operating harmoniously and without violent conflict. Peace is commonly understood as the absence of hostility, or the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, safety in matters of social or economic welfare, the acknowledgment of equality and fairness in has a similar meaning
- Shalom Shalom (Sephardic Hebrew/Israeli Hebrew: Shalom; Ashkenazi Hebrew/Yiddish: Sholem or Shulem) is a Hebrew word meaning peace, completeness, and welfare and can be used idiomatically to mean both hello and goodbye. As it does in English, it can refer to either peace between two entities (especially between man and God or between two countries), or has a similar meaning
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