Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used as a traditional Jewish greeting or farewell.
Wiktionary
- interj. A traditional Jewish greeting or farewell.
- interj. peace.
Etymologies
- From Hebrew שלום (shalóm, "peace, well-being; Hello, good-bye"), from Proto-Semitic *šalām- (“peace”). (Wiktionary)
- Hebrew šālôm, peace; see šlm in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“For example, the Hebrew word shalom, which is a powerful mantra meaning peace, ends in the primal sound om, which can be accented and elongated to increase its vibratory effects.”
“In fact, one of my favorite words that we hear over and over in the Bible is the Hebrew word shalom, which among other things implies peace, happiness, well-being, wholeness, completeness, and welfare—most of what we mean when we say we want to be “happy.””
“In Hebrew there is a word "shalom," and it often translated as "peace.”
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“And the holy place in Jerusalem has always been an attempt to return imaginatively through ritual to that sense of what in Hebrew is called shalom, which is often translated peace, but really means a sense of wholeness and completeness.”
“June 21st, 2006 at 4: 26 pm the lenerd nemoy thing bout how his vulcan saltue came from the letter shin from shalom is wrong. it came from the holiest prayer that the high priest would say and the shape of his hands were so holy that were not allowed to look at his hands, spock doing that was very bad!”
“The Talmud says, "Talmidei hukhamim shemarbin shalom baolam" (It is the wise men who will bring about peace).”
“Shlomekh is from the same root as the word shalom, so it's kind of like asking, "How is your peace?”
“Considering how the TV in my neck of the woods has been flooded for the past few months with tourism ads for Israel, stressing the word shalom, I find the irony striking.”
“And our children-turned-soldiers will hopefully one day patrol a joint border that will see both countries flourish in 'shalom' - peace.,”
“The second great cluster is shalom, which is understood as peace, but it means so much more than merely peace.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shalom’.
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Yiddishkeit
There are a few short lists of Yiddish words, but none appropriate to the glory of the language, and none that are open. Thought I'd start one, and would love contributions. I'm tagging as I go, an...
schmuck, nosh, chutzpah, shtick, kvetch, oy vey, oy gevalt, shvitz, shtik, shiksa, putz, mensch and 94 more...
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
taramea, tawings, tchicks, timider, tirades, tirings, towings, trailed, trailer, trained, trainee, trainer and 2373 more...
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Peace in a Zillion Different Languages
paz, paix, shalom, peace, pace, vrede, maluhia, salaam, alaafia, heiwa, amani, damai and 18 more...
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hebrew
im trying to learn "evreet" desperately.. with the help of my orthodox bud chany. here's some conversational hebrew transliterated. feel free to add to the list.
shalom, todah, rabah, ani, b', ca cha ca cha, mashlomech, mashlomcha, yisrael, mishpacha, rivakah, afoh and 9 more...
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Be drivers
pile driver, chicane, truck driver, carpool driver, system software d..., Tampopo, telltale, stirling moss, selfish gene, rubberneck, mint, slalom and 9 more...
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dandy's list
favourite words
cattywampus, wibble, fenagle, whisker, sneeze, wisteria, honeysuckle, clove, perihelion, glimmer, twilight, dusk and 264 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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What a concept
surrender, submit, yield, self-sacrifice, relent, capitulate, compromise, accommodate, commiserate, forgive, placate, give and 94 more...
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elij's Words
diegesis, intrinsic, semantic, salience, nonchalant, infosthetics, ambiguous, altruism, cynical, abstruse, vatic, encomium and 137 more...
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greetings & salutations
of one word
greetings, salutations, hello, hola, 'ello, g'day, hiya, hi, 'sup, howdy, yo, bonjour and 14 more...
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Tasty Morsels
(my favorite words)
gregarious, ostentatious, exacerbate, flibbity gibbet, conundrum, quixotic, vituperous, harlot, bliss, shalom, ephemeral, blossom and 5 more...
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SSPA
Tweets
Looking for tweets for shalom.
aujourdui peace in hebrew!! Apr 25, 2008
treeseed Shalom (שָ�?לוֹ�?) is a Hebrew and Jewish word meaning peace, Nothing missing, Nothing broken, wellbeing, and complete, and used to mean 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 to the well-being, welfare or safety of an individual or a group of individuals. It is also used as a greeting to either say hello or farewell, and is found in many other expressions and names.
_Wikipedia Feb 16, 2008