See salaam on Wiktionary
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"1": "en",
"2": "ar",
"3": "س ل م"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Arabic سَلَام (salām, “peace”). Doublet of shalom, a borrowing from Hebrew.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "salaams",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "salaaming",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "salaamed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "salaamed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter I, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part III, page 176:",
"text": "[H]e went away salaaming, and protesting his friendship and his master’s goodwill.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:",
"text": "He salaamed low to Flory, covering his face with his hand […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan, page 165:",
"text": "Outside the town, three ragged children salaamed the Governor from the back of a camel.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1964, John Berryman, chapter 24, in 77 Dream Songs, New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, page 26:",
"text": "Beside himself, his possibilities; / salaaming hours of a half-blind morning / while the rainy lepers salaamed back,",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1968, Jan Morris, chapter 17, in Pax Britannica, Faber & Faber, published 2010, page 379:",
"text": "The tea-planters’ houses of Ceylon […] were often surrounded by admirable lawns of coarse mountain grass, upon which the planters’ ladies enviably sat, buzzed about by harmless insects and salaamed by passing serfs.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 41:",
"text": "Nantwich made a kind of diving or salaaming motion with his hands, and the man nodded and smiled.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To perform a salaam to (someone)."
],
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[
"perform",
"perform"
],
[
"salaam",
"salaam#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, transitive) To perform a salaam to (someone)."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"rhymes": "-ɑːm"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "salam"
}
],
"word": "salaam"
}
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"2": "ar",
"3": "سَلَام"
},
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},
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"args": {
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"3": "س ل م"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Arabic سَلَام (salām).",
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"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "interjection"
},
"expansion": "salaam",
"name": "head"
}
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"lang": "Swahili",
"lang_code": "sw",
"pos": "intj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
"Swahili greetings",
"Swahili interjections",
"Swahili lemmas",
"Swahili terms borrowed from Arabic",
"Swahili terms derived from Arabic",
"Swahili terms derived from the Arabic root س ل م"
],
"glosses": [
"hello"
],
"links": [
[
"hello",
"hello"
]
]
}
],
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"audio": "Sw-ke-salaam.flac",
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{
"word": "salamu"
}
],
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}
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