Lal Salam (Bengali: লাল সেলাম, Hindi: लाल सलाम, Urdu: لال سلام; transl. "Red salute"[1]) is a salute, greeting, or code word used by communists in South Asia. The phrase is a compound of lāl, meaning "red" in Hindi and Urdu, and salām, meaning "peace", a contraction of the Arabic phrase as-salāmu ʿalaykum, a Muslim greeting meaning "peace be upon you".
References
- ^ Sreekumar, P. (5 March 2020). "Contact and the Development of Malayalam". The Oxford Handbook of Language Contact. Oxford University Press. p. 518–539. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199945092.013.23. ISBN 978-0-19-994509-2.
Further reading
- Ali, Kamran Asdar (2015). Surkh Salam: Communist Politics and Class Activism in Pakistan, 1947-1972. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-940308-0.
