Talk:Š-L-M

message: Man, this is hard... My dad is trying to teach me the basics of SLM, he knows this stuff and has books about it, but im still learing. Anyhow, its no as easy as some people belive, its not only a "peace"/"submission" issue... --Striver 14:27, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This is one of the worst articles I've ever seen. Were one to remove the poor and unsourced translations, there would be hardly anything left. Wikipedia is not even an etymological dictionary of the English language, much less of Arabic. Even so, if it must remain, it deserves some actual sources, not just Wikipedians making things up based on their own uninformed and presumptuous guesses.Proabivouac 00:34, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion recommended

message: There is no good reason for showing the Hebrew letters seen,lam,meem,alef. If there is good reason for showing these letters in Aramaic, and one fears that there are few people who can read them, and one wants to transcribe them, please transcribe them in smaller letters in Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Greek, Devnagari, Armenian, ....  85.178.119.129 (talk) 12:02, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  שלמא 

message: The opening sentence of this article mistakenly states that ܫܠܡܐ is an Aramaic word. This word/script is actually Syriac, which while a dialect of Aramaic, is NOT Aramaic itself and is not written with same script. I tried to correct this error, but could not figure out how to do so. ‎-- 03:41, 23 October 2010 75.204.246.154
:Syriac is one language in the Aramaic language group... AnonMoos (talk) 06:59, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ܫܠܡܐ‎ is NOT "Aramaic" 

message: Is the first letter S, Š or Ś? (Compare Q-D-Š -- YPNYPN ✡ 23:05, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's س in Arabic, ordinary ש in Hebrew, /š/ in "old" reconstructions of proto-Semitic, and often /s/ in "new" reconstructions of proto-Semitic. AnonMoos (talk) 02:13, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: So does that mean that shin and samekh are the same, if they're both /s/? -- YPNYPN ✡ 02:34, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

text: So if they are different, why don't we make that clear by using /š/ for shin, /ś/ for sin, and /s/ for samekh? In other words, why don't we rename the article to match the facts? -- YPNYPN ✡ 05:19, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Because the article started out being mainly about Arabic (don't think there's any other reason)... AnonMoos (talk) 11:57, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: So should I change Q-D-Š to Q-D-S for consistency? -- YPNYPN ✡ 14:04, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Doubt it -- most usage of q-d-s in Arabic is ultimately a loan or calque on Hebrew or Aramaic q-d-š. AnonMoos (talk) 19:32, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: My point is just that the articles should be consistent. A visitor to Wikipedia won't realize that the last letter of Q-D-Š is the same as the first letter of S-L-M. One of them should be changed. -- YPNYPN ✡ 19:51, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The inconsistencies are because some root articles were originally started mainly with Arabic mainly in mind, and others apparently not.  I don't oppose a rename of S-L-M to Š-L-M, just not sure I see a burning need for it... AnonMoos (talk) 03:41, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: So are you saying that there's no reason it's the way it is, and that you don't mind a move? -- YPNYPN ✡ 05:32, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to move it if you want to; I'm just not sure that such a move is required... AnonMoos (talk) 18:14, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  -- YPNYPN ✡ 18:43, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  First letter 

message: Does anybody know the correct adjective of salām ("peace") in Arabic, perhaps: salimī or salamī or ...? 79.251.64.214 (talk) 11:56, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The adjective, peaceful, is: silmī سلمي (spoken "silmee") 79.251.108.159 (talk) 02:55, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arabic adjective