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How to say "get well / glad you're safe" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningget well / glad you're safe

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

سَلَامَتَك

salāmtakסלאמתך

سلامتك

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

רפואה שלמה

refu'a shlemaرِفُوءَا شْلِمَا

How the two words are related

Cognate

Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.

Arabic root

س-ل-م

Hebrew root

ש-ל-ם

Salāmtak, 'your wellness,' leans on the same root س-ل-م as سلام itself — and Hebrew שלום. Said to someone who was sick, hurt, or just got back safely; Hebrew's own get-well wish, רפואה שלמה, 'a complete healing,' reaches for that very root's sense of 'whole.'

Related Hebrew word:שלוםshalomشَالُوم

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In a phrase

سَلَامَتَك يَا حَبِيبِي
salāmtak yā ḥabībīסלאמתך יא חביבי

get well, my dear

The root family

س-ل-مש-ל-ם· wholeness, peace

The flagship pair: שלום and salām are the same word, from a root meaning wholeness and safety in both languages. Arabic's Form IV verbal noun islām — handing oneself over whole — is built exactly like Hebrew הַשְׁלָמָה, and even שילם "to pay" matches Arabic sallama "to hand over": paying is making someone whole.

  • سَلَام salāmpeaceשָׁלוֹםpeace
  • سَلِمَ salimahe was safe, came out unharmedשָׁלֵםwhole, intact
  • سَلَّمَ sallamahe greeted; handed overשִׁלֵּםhe paid (made whole)
  • إِسْلَام islāmIslam — surrender (to God)הַשְׁלָמָהcompletion; acceptance
  • مُسْلِم muslimMuslim — one who surrenders (to God)מַשְׁלִיםone who completes / accepts
  • سَلَامَة salāmasafety, well-being (as in maʿa s-salāma)

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