English

Etymology 1

From Old English sealt; see salt. Compare Latin sal.

Noun

sal (uncountable)

1. (chemistry, obsolete) salt

Usage notes

Was used predominantly to form the names of various chemical compounds.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Hindi (s?l), from Sanskrit (la).

Alternative forms

• saul, shala

Noun

sal (plural sals)

1. Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree.
   • 1989, Thomas Weber, Hugging the trees: the story of the Chipko movement, page 18:

     As the sals were cut in the lower foothill districts the loggers looked towards the mountains in their search for other hardwood timber.

Translations

Anagrams

• ALS, ALs, ASL, LSA, SLA, a/s/l, al's, als, asl, las

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sal/

Verb

sal (present sal, past sou)

1. shall, will

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Aragonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sal f

1. salt

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), "sal", in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ->ISBN

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin s?l, salem.

Noun

sal m (plural sales)

1. salt

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Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan sal, from Latin s?l, salem, from Proto-Indo-European *seh?l-.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /'sal/

Noun

sal f (plural sals)

1. salt

Related terms

• salar

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Chairel

Noun

sal

1. sun

References

• W. McCulloch, Account of the Valley of Munnipore and of the Hill tribes with a comparative vocabulary of the Munnipore and other languages (1859, Calcutta: Bengal Printing Company)

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Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish sal ("salt").

Noun

sal

1. salt

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse salr, from Proto-Germanic *saliz, from Proto-Indo-European *sol-, *sel-.

Noun

sal c (singular definite salen, plural indefinite sale)

1. hall, room

Declension

Derived terms

• retssal

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Esperanto

Interjection

sal

1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of saluton ("hello").

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Franco-Provençal

Etymology

From Latin s?l, salem.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

sal f

1. salt

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese sal, from Latin s?l, salem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s?al]

Noun

sal m

1. salt

Derived terms

• saleiro

Related terms

• As Saíñas

References

• "sal" in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• "sal" in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• "sal" in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• "sal" in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese sal. Cognates with Kabuverdianu sal.

Noun

sal

1. salt

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Icelandic

Noun

sal

1. indefinite accusative singular of salur
2. indefinite dative singular of salur

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch zaal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sal/

Noun

sal (plural sal-sal, first-person possessive salku, second-person possessive salmu, third-person possessive salnya)

1. A large room.

   Synonym: bangsal

Further reading

• "sal" in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Interlingua

Noun

sal (plural sales)

1. salt (substance consisting of positive and negative ions)

Related terms

• salin

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Irish

Noun

sal f (genitive singular saile) or
sal m (genitive singular sail)

1. Alternative form of sail ("dirt; stain")

Declension

As masculine first-declension noun:

As feminine second-declension noun:

Mutation

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Istriot

Etymology

From Latin s?l, salem.

Noun

sal

1. salt

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Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese sal.

Noun

sal

1. salt

Proper noun

sal

1. (Sal) Sal
2. One of the ten islands of Cape Verde

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Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?:l/

Noun

sal f

1. year

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *seh?l-.

Cognates include Sanskrit (sará), Old Armenian (a?), Ancient Greek (háls), Tocharian A s?le, and Old English sealt (English salt).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sa:l/, [sa:]

Noun

s?l m (genitive salis); third declension

1. salt

   cum gr?n? salis - with a grain of salt

2. (figuratively) wit

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Usage notes

• S?l is occasionally found as a neuter noun in the singular. A neuter by-form sale (genitive salis) is also occasionally found, e.g. in Ennius Ann. 385 and Varro d. Non. 223, 17.

Derived terms

• sal?
• sali?
• s?l petrae (stone salt; that is, found as an incrustation)

Descendants

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Middle Dutch

Verb

sal

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of sullen

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse salr.

Noun

sal m (definite singular salen, indefinite plural saler, definite plural salene)

1. a large room in which parties and meetings and similar are held; a hall.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse s?ðull.

Alternative forms

• sadel

Noun

sal m (definite singular salen, indefinite plural saler, definite plural salene)

1. saddle

References

• "sal" in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?:l/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse salr.

Noun

sal m (definite singular salen, indefinite plural salar, definite plural salane)

1. a large room in which parties and meetings and similar are held; a hall

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse s?ðull.

Noun

sal m (definite singular salen, indefinite plural salar, definite plural salane)

1. saddle

Etymology 3

From Old Norse sal ("payment").

Noun

sal n (definite singular salet, indefinite plural sal, definite plural sala)

1. sale

Related terms

• selja, selje
• marknad

References

• "sal" in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Novial

Verb

sal (past saled, active participle salent)

1. (auxiliary) shall, will, goes in front of a verb in order to mark it as having the future tense

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sail? ("rope"). Cognate with Old Saxon s?l (Dutch zeel), Old High German seil (German Seil).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?:l/

Noun

s?l m

1. rope, cord, rein

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• English: sole

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Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin salem, accusative of s?l.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ['sal]

Noun

sal f (plural sales)

1. salt
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 61r.

     Et su ?priedat es de aborrecer la sal tanto que bié parece que a entramas grand enemiztat. ca si las ponen en uno. quiebra la piedra ¬ mueles; ¬ la sal pierde la salgadumbre que a en ella.

     And its property is that it loathes salt so much that it would seem that there is a great enmity between them both, for if they are placed together, the stone breaks, and the salt loses all the saltiness within.

Related terms

• salado
• salgadumbre
• salgadura

Descendants

• Spanish: sal

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /'sa?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /'saw/
• Rhymes: -aw

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese sal, from Latin s?l, salem ("salt, wit"), from Proto-Indo-European *seh?l- ("salt").

Noun

sal m (plural sais)

1. salt (sodium chloride, a substance used as a condiment and preservative)

   Synonyms: cloreto de sódio, sal de cozinha

2. (chemistry) salt (any compound formed from the reaction of an acid with a base)
3. (usually in the plural) bath salt (any of several inorganic salts sometimes added to bath water)

   Synonym: sal de banho

4. (figuratively) wit; the quality of being engaging

   Synonym: graça

Derived terms

• salzinho (diminutive)

Related terms

Etymology 2

Noun

sal m (plural sais)

1. (rare) sal (Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree)

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Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (Turkish ?al, from Persian ‎ (l).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sal/

Noun

sal n (plural saluri)

1. (rare) shawl, scarf

   Synonym: ?al

Etymology 2

Shortened form of salut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa(:)l/

Interjection

sal!

1. (informal) hey!
2. (informal) bye!

Synonyms

• salut (1, 2)
• pa (2)

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Puter) sel

Etymology

From Latin s?l, salem., from Proto-Indo-European *séh?ls.

Noun

sal m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) salt

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sal/
• Rhymes: -al

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish sal, from Latin s?l, salem (compare Catalan sal, French sel, Italian sale, Portuguese sal, Romanian sare), from Proto-Indo-European *seh?l-, a root shared by English salt.

Noun

sal f (plural sales)

1. salt; table salt
2. (chemistry) salt

Synonyms

• (table salt): sal común f, sal de mesa f

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

sal

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of salir.

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse salr, from Proto-Germanic *saliz, from Proto-Indo-European *sol-, *sel-.

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

Noun

sal c

1. a large room (for dining or meetings)

Declension

Related terms

• hörsal
• matsal

Anagrams

• als

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Tocharian B

Etymology

Compare Tocharian A trak

Adjective

sal

1. dirty

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Turkish

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sal (definite accusative sal?, plural sallar)

1. raft

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish ‎ (sal, sel), from Arabic ‎ (salla, "to draw, to unsheathe").

Verb

sal

1. second-person singular imperative of salmak

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), "sal", in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2647

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Venetian

Alternative forms

• sale

Etymology

From Latin s?l, salem.

Noun

sal m (plural sa?i)

1. salt (sodium chloride, non-chemical usage)

sal m (plural sali)

1. (chemistry) salt

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Volapük

Noun

sal (nominative plural sals)

1. salt

Declension