Shin-Lamedh-Mem

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".

Arabic salām (سَلاَم‎), Maltese Sliem, Hebrew Shalom (שָׁלוֹם), Ge'ez salām (ሰላም), Syriac šlama (ܫܠܡܐ) are cognate Semitic terms for "peace", deriving from a Proto-Semitic *šalām-.

The word salām is used in a variety of expressions and contexts in Arabic and Islamic speech and writing. Al-Salam is one of the 99 names of God in Islam, and also a male given name in conjunction with ʿabd. Abd Al-Salam translates to "Slave of Al-Salaam" (i.e. Slave of Allah the All-Peaceable.)

In Hebrew, the equivalent of the word is Shalom. It is also the root word of the names Solomon (Süleyman), Selim, Salem, Selma, Salma, Salmah, Selimah, Salimah, Salome etc.

The Koine Greek New Testament text uses eirēnē (εἰρήνη) for 'peace', which perhaps^{[citation needed]} represents Jesus saying šlama; this Greek form became the northern feminine name Irene. In the Epistles, it often occurs alongside the usual Greek greeting chairein (χαίρειν) in the phrase 'grace and peace'. However, comparison of the Greek Septuagint and Hebrew Masoretic Old Testament texts shows some instances where shalom was translated instead as soteria (σωτηρια, meaning "salvation").