‣ sallachan, sallachin noun a curse: Sallah, jaw drom. [Curse, take to the road.] 20-. etymology: possibly Romany and connected to Spanish Gypsy solája ‘a curse’ and Arabic salat ‘a prayer’; compare sal, salakan; form sallachin attested by Galloway and Perthshire and Argyleshire Tinkler-Gypsies; form sallachan also collected by EMcC/PS and attested by BS in TDITA and SS; form salakh attested in Shelta; form sallach attested by SR note:
Smart & Croft (1875) collected the forms v., súlverkon, sóvlohol ‘to curse’, n., sólohólomus, sóverhóloben ‘a curse’ from English Gypsies.
Form sallachan attested by Paul Pope (2013) with ther same meaning.