Lal Salam (Bengali: লাল সেলাম, Hindi: लाल सलाम, Urdu: لال سلام; transl.
"Red salute"[1]) is a salute, greeting, or code word used by communists in South Asia.
The phrase is a compound of lāl, meaning "red" in Hindi and Urdu, and salām, meaning "peace", a contraction of the Arabic phrase as-salāmu ʿalaykum, a Muslim greeting meaning "peace be upon you".