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"roman": "salâm",
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"sense": "a Muslim greeting",
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"sense": "a Muslim greeting",
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"sense": "a Muslim greeting",
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"sense": "a Muslim greeting",
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"roman": "salām",
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"word": "ਸਲਾਮ"
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"roman": "salóm",
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"roman": "salāmu",
"sense": "a Muslim greeting",
"word": "సలాము"
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"roman": "sälam",
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"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "a Muslim greeting",
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"sense": "a Muslim greeting",
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"ref": "1790, John MacDonald, Travels, in Various Parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, London: for the author, page 168",
"text": "[…] the finest dressed one entered first; put her two hands to her forehead, then to her breasts, and with her two hands touched the Colonel’s foot; this is called a grand salam […]",
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"text": "1840, John Wilson, “On the Genius and Character of Burns” in John Wilson and Robert Chambers, The Land of Burns, Glasgow: Blackie & Son, Volume 2, p. lxxv,\nFinally, Josiah might have made his salaam to the Exciseman just as he was folding up that letter […]"
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"text": "1895, Rabindranath Tagore, letter dated 14 August, 1895 in Glimpses of Bengal, London: Macmillan, 1921, pp. 160-161,\nMy servant was late one morning, and I was greatly annoyed at his delay. He came up and stood before me with his usual salaam, and with a slight catch in his voice explained that his eight-year-old daughter had died last night."
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"ref": "1942, Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi, London: Secker & Warburg, Part Two, p. 112",
"text": "Mr. Tsoutsou and his wife appeared for just a moment to see how I was faring, commented bravely on the delicious, appetizing appearance of the skinned fish and disappeared with bows and salaams which sent an electric thrill through the assembled patrons of Herakleion’s most distinguished restaurant.",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "a Muslim greeting",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "a Muslim greeting",
"word": "salem"
},
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"code": "el",
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},
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"code": "he",
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"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
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"code": "pl",
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},
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"code": "pa",
"lang": "Punjabi",
"roman": "salām",
"sense": "a Muslim greeting",
"word": "ਸਲਾਮ"
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{
"code": "rhg",
"lang": "Rohingya",
"sense": "a Muslim greeting",
"word": "sólam"
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"code": "ru",
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"word": "саля́м"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "seljám",
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},
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "ru",
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},
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"code": "tg",
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"code": "tt",
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"code": "te",
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"word": "సలాము"
},
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"code": "ti",
"lang": "Tigrinya",
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"word": "ሰላም"
},
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"code": "tr",
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"word": "selam"
},
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"code": "tk",
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"code": "ug",
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"code": "uz",
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"sense": "a Muslim greeting",
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},
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "a Muslim greeting",
"word": "xa-lam"
}
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