[Seph. shah-lawm ah-le-khem; Ashk. shaw-luh
m ah-ley-khem, ah-ley-khem, shah-lohm] 
| peace to you: a conventional Jewish greeting, the reply being aleichem shalom. |
[ah-ley-khem] | Sho⋅lom [shaw-luhm] or Sho⋅lem [shoh-lem, -luhm] or Sha⋅lom [shah-lohm] , (pen name of Solomon Rabinowitz), 1859–1916, Russian author of Yiddish novels, plays, and short stories; in the U.S. from 1906. |
| A·lei·chem (ä-lā'kěm, -KHěm) Russian-born Jewish humorist whose stories and plays, originally written in Yiddish, were the basis for the musical Fiddler on the Roof. |
| sha·lom a·lei·chem (shô'ləm ə-lā'KHəm, -kəm, shä-lōm' ä-lā-KHěm') interj. Used as a traditional Jewish greeting or farewell. [Hebrew šālôm 'ālêkem, peace be with you : šālôm, peace; see šlm in Semitic roots + 'ālêkem, with you ('al, 'ālê, to, upon; see ʕly in Semitic roots + -kem, second person pl. pronoun).] |