shalom

Definitions

• interj. Hello, goodbye, peace.
  

Example Sentences

• "Shalom, you've reached Temple Beth Shalom."
  

Languages of Origin

• Textual Hebrew
• Modern Hebrew

Etymology

• Heb שלום shalóm (Yiddish shólem, not used as a greeting in Yiddish or Jewish-English)
  

Who Uses This

• Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
• Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)

Regions

• North America

Dictionaries

• The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
• Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
• The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
• The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
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Alternative Spellings

sholem