shalom

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Pronunciations

shalom (shah-LOHM) listen
sholem (SHAW-lem)

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Definitions

  • interj. Hello.

  • interj. Goodbye.

  • n. Peace.

Example Sentences

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

  • "Last night I had a cholem

    The whole word had sholom" (A Letter to Harvey Milk: Short Stories by Lesléa Newman)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Modern Hebrew

Etymology

  • TH שלום > MH שלום shalóm, Y שלום shólem

      • 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
      • Australia / New Zealand
      • Great Britain
      • South Africa

      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, sholom

Notes

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