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Salaam
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
(Arab. salam, " peace"), the Oriental term for a salutation. The word is used for any act of salutation, as of an ambassador to a monarch, and so in a secondary sense of a compliment. Properly it is the oral salutation of Mahommedans to each other; but it has acquired the special meaning of an act of obeisance.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Salaam'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​s/salaam.html. 1910.