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"Salaam" (in green) and "Shalom" (in blue) mean "peace" in Arabic and Hebrew respectively and often represent a peace symbol.

Arabic Salām ( سلام ) means "peace". It is cognate with the Hebrew Shalom or Syriac Shlama.

The word salaam derives from the root šin-lam-mim (س.ل.م), which has cognates in many Semitic languages, such as Ge'ez ሠላም śalām, modern selām

The word salaam is used in a variety of expressions and contexts in Arabic and Islamic speech and writing:

As-Salamu ʿAlaykum (السلام عليكم; literally "peace be upon you"), this expression is used to greet others and is an Arabic equivalent of "hello". The appropriate response to such a greeting is "and upon you be peace" (wa `alaykum as-salām). This is a cognate of the Hebrew shalom aleichem.

Al-Salam is one of the 99 Names of God in the Qur'an, and also a male given name in conjuction with abd. Abd Al-Salam translates to Slave of Al-Salaam (i.e. Slave of Allah.)

In Hebrew, the equivalent of the word is Shalom (Şalom). It is also the root word of the names Solomon (Süleyman), Selim, etc.