shalom

Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁלוֹם (šālóm, “peace, well-being; Hello, good-bye”). Doublet of salaam, the same word via Arabic.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑːˈloʊm/, /ʃəˈləʊm/

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shalom

1. (Judaism) A traditional Jewish greeting or farewell.

shalom (countable and uncountable, plural shaloms)

1. (countable) The traditional Jewish greeting of "shalom".
   • 2014, David Morrell, The League of Night and Fog:

     He exchanged shaloms with a group of young people coming out of the synagogue and turned left toward a corner.

2. (Judaism, uncountable) Peace. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
   • 2025 June 4, Cindy Von Quednow, TuAnh Dam, “Their synagogue taught them to build peace. An antisemitic attack is testing their resilience”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     In Hebrew, bonai shalom means “builders of peace,” and the congregation welcomes both Jews and non-Jews to participate in all aspects of the community.

shalom (third-person singular simple present shaloms, present participle shaloming, simple past and past participle shalomed)

1. To greet somebody with "shalom".

• halmos, omlahs

shalom

1. shalom (Jewish greeting or farewell)