selam alejkum
Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سلام علیکم (selam aleykum), from Arabic اَلسَّلَام عَلَيْكُم (as-salām ʕalaykum, “peace be upon you”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛˈlam alɛjˈkum/
Interjection
selam alejkum
- (Islam) salaam alaikum (Muslim greeting)
References
- Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 139, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سلام علیکم (selam aleykum), from Arabic اَلسَّلَام عَلَيْكُم (as-salām ʕalaykum, “peace be upon you”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛˈlam alɛjˈkum/
Interjection
selam alejkum (Cyrillic spelling селам алејкум)
- (Islam) salaam alaikum (Muslim greeting)