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Hebrew. This form of greeting was traditional among the Ashkenazi Jewish communities of Eastern Europe. The appropriate response is " Aleichem Shalom " (עֲלֵיכֶם שָׁלוֹם) or "Upon you be peace." (cognate with the Arabic-language "assalamu alaikum" meaning "The peace [of ] be upon you.)" L'hitraot.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, hello is an alteration of hallo, hollo, [ 1] which came from Old High German " halâ, holâ, emphatic imperative of halôn, holôn to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman". [ 5] It also connects the development of hello to the influence of an earlier form, holla, whose origin is in the French ...
Namaste ( Sanskrit pronunciation: [nɐmɐste:], [ 1] Devanagari: नमस्ते), sometimes called namaskār and namaskāram, is a customary Hindu [ 2][ 3][ 4] manner of respectfully greeting and honouring a person or group, used at any time of day. [ 5] It is used in the Indian subcontinent, and among the Indian and Nepalese diaspora.
Shalom (Hebrew: שָׁלוֹם šālōm) is a Hebrew word meaning peace and can be used idiomatically to mean hello. [1] [2]As it does in English, it can refer to either peace between two entities (especially between a person and God or between two countries), or to the well-being, welfare or safety of an individual or a group of individuals.
Nazi salute. The Nazi salute, also known as the Hitler salute, [ a] or the Sieg Heil salute, is a gesture that was used as a greeting in Nazi Germany. The salute is performed by extending the right arm from the shoulder into the air with a straightened hand. Usually, the person offering the salute would say "Heil Hitler!"
In Turkey, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, many religious people use Äs-sälamwaleykum or selamun aleyküm and shake hands and it is the same for saying "Hello"; more secular and non-religious people say Selam and in Kazakhstan say Sälem or Sälemetsız be as an equivalent to "Hello" or "Hi". However, many Turks pronounce it differently as ...
yabber = to talk (this word, with the same meaning, has made its way into informal English) [12] yarra = flowing, (also means "hair"). It is thought to have been mistakenly given to the Yarra River (referred to as Birrarrung in the Woiwurrung language) by an early settler who asked a boy what it was called, who was confused and answered "it is ...
Hallelujah is a transliteration of Hebrew: הַלְלוּ יָהּ ( hallū yāh ), which means "praise ye Jah!" (from הַלְלוּ , "praise ye!" [ 8] and יָהּ , "Jah".) [ 9][ 10][ 11] The word hallēl in Hebrew means a joyous praise in song. The second part, Yah, is a shortened form of YHWH ( Yahweh or Jehovah in modern English).