Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- interjection Used as a traditional Jewish greeting or farewell.
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- interjection Judaism A
greeting said onmeeting someone, especially when the two people meeting have not met insome time .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Hebrew šālôm ‘ălêkem, peace be with you : šālôm, peace; see šlm in Semitic roots + ‘ălêkem, with you (‘al, ‘ălê, to, upon; see עly in Semitic roots + -kem, second person pl. pronoun).]
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From Hebrew שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם (shalóm alechém, "shalom aleichem")
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