Salaam is a short form of ''

As-salamu alaykum As-salamu alaykum ( ar, ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ, , ), also ''Salamun Alaykum'' is a greeting in Arabic that means 'Peace be upon you'. The (, meaning 'peace') has become a religious salutation for Muslims worldwide when greet ...

'', an Arabic greeting meaning "Peace be upon you". This phrase and the Arabic word 'peace' derive from the Semitic root

Š-L-M Shin-Lamedh- Mem is the triconsonantal root of many Semitic words and many of those words are used as names. The root meaning translates to "whole, safe, intact, unharmed, to go free, without blemish". Its earliest known form is in the name of S ...

. Salaam or Salam may also refer to:

Businesses and organizations

* Al-Salam SC, several sports teams * ''

Salaam TV Salaam TV is an independent satellite television channel committed to providing Shia Islamic programming. Salaam TV was established in early 2005 by Hajj Sheikh Mohammad Hedayati. The channel's launch date intentionally coincided with the ...

'', independent satellite television channel *

Salaam Bank The Salaam Bank (SB) is a bank headquartered in Mogadishu, the capital and most populous city of Somalia. Benadir region in South Somalia. Overview Salaam Bank was established in February 2011. As a financial institution, the bank provides pers ...

, commercial bank headquartered in Bosaso, Somalia * Salaam Somali Bank, commercial bank headquartered in Mogadishu, Somalia * ''Salam'', defunct newspaper in Iran *

Salam Zgharta FC Salam Zgharta Football Club ( ar, نادي السلام الرياضي زغرتا, lit=Zgharta Peace Sporting Club), known as Salam Zgharta or simply Salam, is a football club based in Zgharta, Lebanon, that competes in the . Founded in 1933 ...

, Lebanese association football club *

Zee Salaam ''Zee Media Corporation Limited'' (abbreviated as ZMCL; formerly Zee News Limited) is the news broadcasting company of the Essel Group which is controlled by Subhash Chandra. The company is engaged mainly in the business of broadcasting of news ...

, Indian Hindi- and Urdu-language Islamic TV channel owned by Zee Network

Music

* ''Salam'', film score by

Fariborz Lachini Fariborz Lachini ( fa, فریبرز لاچینی; born August 25, 1949) is an Iranian film score composer. Career He started his career in Iran writing music for children, creating "Avaz Faslha va Rangha" at the age of 18 which caught the attent ...

* ''Salam'', song by

Alabina Alabina is a French-based group that performs a mix of world music: Middle Eastern, Arabic, French, Hebrew, and Spanish Gypsy music. Alabina consists of lead singer Ishtar, who does the female vocals, and the band Los Niños de Sara, who provi ...

* "Salaam" (song), peace song by Mosh Ben Ari * ''Salaam'' (album), album by Sami Yusuf * ''Salam'' (album), album by Irfan Makki

People

Given name

* Salaam bin Said Al Shaksy, chief executive *

Salaam Remi Salaam Remi Gibbs (born May 14, 1972) is a Grammy winning American record producer known for his association with Nas, Amy Winehouse, Robby, Fugees, Fergie, Estelle, Black Thought, and Miguel, and for his reggae-tinged (often referred to as ...

, American hip hop record producer

Surname

* Abd al-Salam (name) * Anbara Salam, Lebanese writer and activist *

Ephraim Salaam Ephraim Mateen Salaam (born June 19, 1976) is a former American football offensive tackle. He was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the seventh round (199th overall) of the 1998 NFL Draft. He played college football at San Diego State. Salaam has ...

, American football player *

Florin Salam Florin Stoian (born 1 October 1979), better known by his stage name Florin Salam, is a Romani people, Roma manele singer. Beginnings Salam was born into a family of lăutari. During his adolescence, he sang together with his father and uncle's ...

, Romanian manele singer * H. Salam (active from 2021), Indian politician in Kerala * Kawther Salam, Palestinian journalist *

Mohammed Ahmed Salam The United States has held a total of 115 Yemeni citizens at Guantanamo Bay, forty-two of whom have since been transferred out of the facility. Only Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia had a greater number of their citizens held in the Guantanamo Bay dete ...

, Yemeni prisoner *

Abdul Salam Rocketi Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi (born 1958) is a former mujahideen "freedom fighter" and Taliban military commander who renounced his allegiance to run for the Parliament of Afghanistan in 2005, and for the Presidency in 2009.

, Afghan military personnel *

Nawaf Salam Nawaf Salam ( ar, نواف سلام; born 15 December 1953) is a Lebanese diplomat, jurist, and academic. He was elected on 9 November 2017 as judge on the International Court of Justice for the 2018–2027 term, having received a concurrent ma ...

, Lebanese diplomat, academic, jurist *

Rashaan Salaam Rashaan Iman Salaam (October 8, 1974 – December 5, 2016) was an American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for four seasons during the 1990s. Salaam played college football ...

, American football player *

Salim Ali Salam Salim Ali Salam ( ar, سليم علي سلام, tr, Selim Ali Selam, also known as Abu Ali Salam; 1868–1938) was a prominent figure in Beirut at the turn of the 20th century who held numerous public positions, including deputy from Beirut to th ...

, Lebanese statesman *

Saeb Salam Saeb Salam (17 January 1905 – 21 January 2000) ( ar, صائب سلام) was a Lebanon, Lebanese politician, who served as List of Prime Ministers of Lebanon, Prime Minister six times between 1952 and 1973. Following his death, the Lebanese ...

, Lebanese politician *

Tammam Salam Tammam Saeb Salam ( ar, تمّام صائب سلام, ; born 13 May 1945) is a Lebanese politician who was the Prime Minister of Lebanon from February 2014 until December 2016. He also served as the acting President of Lebanon from May 2014 unti ...

, Lebanese politician *

Waleed Al-Salam Waleed Al-Salam (born 15 July 1926 in Baghdad, Iraq – died 14 April 1996 in Edmonton, Canada) was a mathematician who introduced Al-Salam–Chihara polynomials, Al-Salam–Carlitz polynomials, q-Konhauser polynomials, and Al-Salam–Ismail pol ...

, mathematician

Places

Salam, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Salm ( fa, سلم, also Romanized as Salam) is a village in Kiar-e Gharbi Rural District, in the Central District of Kiar County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,454, in 330 families. The village ...

, Iran (also known as Salm) *

Salam, Mali Salam is a rural commune of the Cercle of Timbuktu in the Tombouctou Region of Mali. The commune contains 26 villages and in the 2009 census had a population of 17,139. The commune is administered from Agouni. The commune includes the oasis v ...

Salam Street Salam Street ( ar, شَارَع ٱلسَّلَام, Shāraʿ As-Salām), now renamed as "Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Street" ( ar, شَارَع ٱلشَّيْخ زَايِد بِن سُلْطَان, Shāraʿ Ash-Shaykh Zāyid Bin Sulṭān), and les ...

, Abu Dhabi

Other uses

Operation Salam Operation Salam was a 1942 World War II military operation organised by the ''Abwehr'' under the command of the Hungarian desert explorer László Almásy. The mission was conceived in order to assist Panzer Army Africa by delivering two German ...

, covert operation during World War II * Salaam spasms or epileptic spasms, disorder * Salam leaf or Indonesian bay leaf, leaf of a plant in the family Myrtaceae