interjection
shalom
shah-LOHM
interjection
1
A traditional Jewish greeting or farewell, meaning peace.
""Shalom!" she said as she welcomed her guests."
noun
1
Peace, well-being, or wholeness.
"The rabbi spoke of finding shalom within oneself."
How to Use Shalom
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA Hebrew word used both as a greeting and to mean "peace".
Easily confused with
Word Forms
shalomed past tense, shaloms plural, Shaloms plural, shaloms singular
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Etymology
From Hebrew shalom ("peace, well-being"), a doublet of Arabic "salaam", which entered English separately.