Given name · Arabic
سالم
“to be safe, sound, healthy, etc”
سالم (sālim) is a masculine given name. It is used in Arabic.
ArabicWritten in Arabic script, read right to left. In English: Sālim.
Meaning & origin
What it means
سالم goes back to a word meaning “to be safe, sound, healthy, etc.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
سالم is Sālim written in Arabic script. An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
سالم’s family of names
In Arabic usage, سالم can be written in the Roman alphabet as Sālim.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named سالم
- Salem Al-DawsariSaudi footballer (born 1991)
- Salim Rubaya AliPresident of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1934-1978)
- Salim ibn Abd AllahHadith narrator and grandson of caliph Umar
- Salem BouhagebTunisian reformist, jurisconsult and poet1827–1924
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