Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to salaam
Participle: salaamed
Gerund: salaaming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | salaam |
| you | salaam |
| he;she;it | salaams |
| we | salaam |
| you | salaam |
| they | salaam |
Perfect
| I | have salaamed |
| you | have salaamed |
| he;she;it | has salaamed |
| we | have salaamed |
| you | have salaamed |
| they | have salaamed |
Past
| I | salaamed |
| you | salaamed |
| he;she;it | salaamed |
| we | salaamed |
| you | salaamed |
| they | salaamed |
Pluperfect
| I | had salaamed |
| you | had salaamed |
| he;she;it | had salaamed |
| we | had salaamed |
| you | had salaamed |
| they | had salaamed |
Future
| I | will salaam |
| you | will salaam |
| he;she;it | will salaam |
| we | will salaam |
| you | will salaam |
| they | will salaam |
Future Perfect
| I | will have salaamed |
| you | will have salaamed |
| he;she;it | will have salaamed |
| we | will have salaamed |
| you | will have salaamed |
| they | will have salaamed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | salaam |
| you | salaam |
| he;she;it | salaam |
| we | salaam |
| you | salaam |
| they | salaam |
Perfect
| I | have salaamed |
| you | have salaamed |
| he;she;it | have salaamed |
| we | have salaamed |
| you | have salaamed |
| they | have salaamed |
Imperfect
| I | salaamed |
| you | salaamed |
| he;she;it | salaamed |
| we | salaamed |
| you | salaamed |
| they | salaamed |
Pluperfect
| I | had salaamed |
| you | had salaamed |
| he;she;it | had salaamed |
| we | had salaamed |
| you | had salaamed |
| they | had salaamed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would salaam |
| you | would salaam |
| he;she;it | would salaam |
| we | would salaam |
| you | would salaam |
| they | would salaam |
Perfect
| I | would have salaamed |
| you | would have salaamed |
| he;she;it | would have salaamed |
| we | would have salaamed |
| you | would have salaamed |
| they | would have salaamed |
Imperative
| you | salaam |
| we | Let's salaam |
| you | salaam |
Verbs conjugated like 'salaam'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'salaam'
salam,
alarm,
balsam,
salary,
salsa,
slam,
alarum,
alias,
allay,
alum,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Arabic سَلَام (salām, “peace”). Doublet of shalom, a borrowing from Hebrew. See: Arabic '
سَلَام'.
Sample Sentences
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[H]e went away salaaming, and protesting his friendship and his master’s goodwill. [1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter I, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part III, page 176:]
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He salaamed low to Flory, covering his face with his hand […] [1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:]
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Outside the town, three ragged children salaamed the Governor from the back of a camel. [1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan, page 165:]
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Beside himself, his possibilities; / salaaming hours of a half-blind morning / while the rainy lepers salaamed back, [1964, John Berryman, chapter 24, in 77 Dream Songs, New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, page 26:]
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The tea-planters’ houses of Ceylon […] were often surrounded by admirable lawns of coarse mountain grass, upon which the planters’ ladies enviably sat, buzzed about by harmless insects and salaamed by passing serfs. [1968, Jan Morris, chapter 17, in Pax Britannica, Faber & Faber, published 2010, page 379:]
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Nantwich made a kind of diving or salaaming motion with his hands, and the man nodded and smiled. [1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 41:]