Pronunciations

Definitions

• interj. Hello.

• interj. Goodbye.

• n. Peace.

Example Sentences

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
• Great Britain
• South Africa
• Australia / New Zealand

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