سلّم على الكل
“سلّم على الكل” (саллим аля аль-куль) — say hello to everyone in Arabic. Phrase, level B1. Not "pass greetings" but "greet them with the hand": salaam, "peace", is from the greetings. Sallim ʿala demands a continuation — to whom: sallim ʿala al-kull — hello to everyone. In a live sentence: “سلّم على الكل في البيت” — Say hello to everyone at home. Written with the characters س, ل, م, ع, ل, ى, ا, ل, ك, ل. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Arabic | سلّم على الكل |
| Read in Latin letters | саллим аля аль-куль |
| Translation | say hello to everyone |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Not "pass greetings" but "greet them with the hand": salaam, "peace", is from the greetings. Sallim ʿala demands a continuation — to whom: sallim ʿala al-kull — hello to everyone
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- سلّم على الكل في البيتсаллим аля аль-куль фи аль-байтSay hello to everyone at home
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “say hello to everyone” in Arabic?
«سلّم على الكل», read “саллим аля аль-куль”. In a live sentence: “سلّم على الكل في البيت” — Say hello to everyone at home. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters س, ل, م, ع, ل, ى, ا, ل, ك, ل.
How is “سلّم على الكل” written in Latin letters?
саллим аля аль-куль. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Not "pass greetings" but "greet them with the hand": salaam, "peace", is from the greetings. Sallim ʿala demands a continuation — to whom: sallim ʿala al-kull — hello to everyone. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.