Salam or Dorood? A Debate About Persian Greetings

I don't know about you, but anyone who says “dorood” instead of hello I won't answer them, and in my head, I sing, “doo doo doo doo doo doo,” “doo doo doo doo doo doo doo.” because it reminds me of Omid Ghorse- Sagh on *Befarmaeed Sham* when one of those *Befarmaeed Sham*- style analyses suddenly

turned into political bullshit being fed to the people and kind of drilled into everyone's head that, yeah, “salaam” is Arabic, and we should say “dorood” instead.

But that's not true at all. I mean, “salaam” went from Phoenician to Syriac and then to Aramaic, the language of ordinary people in the Achaemenid era, and from there went northeast and became Hebrew, “shalom.”

In none of the poems by Saadi, Nezami, or Ferdowsi do they use “dorood”— meaning “greeting”— as a way to say hello.

They use “dorood” for someone who's hardworking, and wise, when they want to praise them.

Okay? No answer needed. I mean, if anyone says “dorood” to you, don't answer them.

Sing “doo doo doo doo doo doo doo” instead, “doo doo doo doo doo doo doo.”