Modi,Isn't that enough of a connection to have so many similar roots?Perry is there a connection between Arabic and Hebrew other than the fact that both are semetic languages?
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That's what I meant by my comment about the alphabet: both are Semitic languanges. I'm not a linguist, but I see a connection when I see "ben" and "bin" for "son of" and, especially, "shalom" and "salam" for "peace."
As-Salamu Alaykum
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As-Salāmu `Alaykum (السلام عليكم) is an Arabic spoken greeting used by Muslims as well as Arab Christians and Jews. The term Salam in Arabic means "Peace". The greeting may also be transliterated as Salaam 'Alaykum. It means "Peace be upon you". The traditional response is wa `Alaykum As-Salaam, meaning "and upon you be peace."
This type of greeting is common in the Middle East and Africa; its Hebrew counterpart greeting is Shalom aleichemand in Maltese is Sliem ghalikom.
Pax vobiscum!S-L-M
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Sin-Lam-Mim (Hebrew: שלם Š-L-M, Arabic: س ل م S-L-M, Maltese: S-L-M) is the triconsonantal root of many Semitic words, and many of those words are used as names. The root itself translates as "whole, safe, intact".
"Shalom" (in blue) and "Salām" (in green) mean "peace" in Hebrew and Arabic respectively and often represent a peace symbol.