salaam
noun
a salutation meaning “peace,” used especially in Islamic countries.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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See, how the fissures in the boulders yonder seem to sympathise with the gaps in the terrace walls: the cyclamen leaves in the one are salaaming the cyclamen flowers in the other.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani