# Salam or Dorood? A Debate About Persian Greetings

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119192729314045975
- Source account: [@MHDR_1](https://x.com/MHDR_1)
- Source language: Persian
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:08
- Published: 2026-11-08
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Wco83hPYwvBq/en/salam-or-dorood-a-debate-about-persian-greetings
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Wco83hPYwvBq/en/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

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Wco83hPYwvBq/en/salam-or-dorood-a-debate-about-persian-greetings?t=17) 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.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Wco83hPYwvBq/en/salam-or-dorood-a-debate-about-persian-greetings?t=26) 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.”

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Wco83hPYwvBq/en/salam-or-dorood-a-debate-about-persian-greetings?t=41) In none of the poems by Saadi, Nezami, or Ferdowsi do they use “dorood”— meaning “greeting”— as a way to say hello.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Wco83hPYwvBq/en/salam-or-dorood-a-debate-about-persian-greetings?t=49) They use “dorood” for someone who's hardworking, and wise, when they want to praise them.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Wco83hPYwvBq/en/salam-or-dorood-a-debate-about-persian-greetings?t=58) Okay? No answer needed. I mean, if anyone says “dorood” to you, don't answer them.

[1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Wco83hPYwvBq/en/salam-or-dorood-a-debate-about-persian-greetings?t=63) Sing “doo doo doo doo doo doo doo” instead, “doo doo doo doo doo doo doo.”