salaam
noun
a salutation meaning “peace,” used especially in Islamic countries.
salaamed
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past participleof salaam.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof salaam.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
salaamnouna salutation meaning “peace,” used especially in Islamic countries.
Example Sentences
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Italians still salaamed to his face on screens, his name on walls, but there were certain new mental reservations in their reverence.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a Mecca to which diplomats either made pilgrimages or salaamed.
From Time Magazine Archive
One Teheran elector dropped his ballot in the box, then salaamed deeply three times to the container.
From Time Magazine Archive
The men and women who had been waiting in the courtyard and inner rooms salaamed, but he took no notice of their salutations.
From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny
The horses moved, the carriage passed close to me, and again I gazed at this mighty sovereign, while the Eastern pilgrims salaamed to the ground.
From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Robert (Robert Smythe) Hichens
