Salaam alaikum.
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Salaam
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kowtowmake a legmake a reverencemake obeisancemaking a legnodobeisanceobsequiousnesspresenting armsprostrationregardsreverencesalaamssalutationsalutationssalutescrapeservilitysquatstanding at attention
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10 entriesArab greetingIslamic greetingarabic greetingcultural greetingform of greetingformal greetinggestural greetingmuslim greetingsalaam aleikumverbal greeting
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[…] the finest dressed one entered first; put her two hands to her forehead, then to her breasts, and with her two hands touched the Colonel’s foot; this is called a grand salam […]
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1840, John Wilson, “On the Genius and Character of Burns” in John Wilson and Robert Chambers, The Land of Burns, Glasgow: Blackie & Son, Volume 2, p. lxxv, Finally, Josiah might have made his salaam to the Exciseman just as he was folding up that letter […]
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1895, Rabindranath Tagore, letter dated 14 August, 1895 in Glimpses of Bengal, London: Macmillan, 1921, pp. 160-161, My servant was late one morning, and I was greatly annoyed at his delay. He came up and stood before me with his usual salaam, and with a slight catch in his voice explained that his eight-year-old daughter had died last night.
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