sal

See also: Sal, sàl, sál, şal, šal, šál, sâl, śal, and sål

English

Etymology 1

Noun

sal (uncountable)

  1. (chemistry, obsolete) salt
Usage notes

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

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

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

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zal.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sal/

Verb

sal (present sal, past sou)

  1. shall, will

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin sāl, salem.

Noun

sal m (plural sales)

  1. salt

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan sal, from Latin sāl, salem, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

Noun

sal f (plural sals)

  1. salt

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)

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish sal (“salt”).

Noun

sal

  1. salt

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

Esperanto

Interjection

sal

  1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of saluton (“hello”).

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

From Latin sāl, salem.

Noun

sal f

  1. salt

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese sal, from Latin sāl, salem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [s̺al]

Noun

sal m

  1. salt

Icelandic

Noun

sal

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

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

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sal shal
after an, tsal		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin sāl, salem.

Noun

sal

  1. salt

Kurdish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɑːl/

Noun

sal f

  1. year

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

Cognates include Sanskrit सलिल (salila), Old Armenian աղ (ał), Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls), Tocharian A sāle, and Old English sealt (English salt).

Pronunciation

Noun

sāl m, n (genitive salis); third declension

  1. salt
    cum grānō salis : with a grain of salt
  2. wit

Inflection

Third declension.
Case Singular Plural
nominative sāl salēs
genitive salis salum
dative salī salibus
accusative salem salēs
ablative sale salibus
vocative sāl salēs

Derived terms

Descendants

Middle Dutch

Verb

sal

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

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 sǫðull.

Alternative forms

Noun

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

  1. a saddle

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

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 sǫðull.

Noun

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

  1. a saddle

Etymology 3

From Old Norse sal (“payment”).

Noun

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

  1. sale

References

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

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sailą (“rope”). Cognate with Old Saxon sēl (Dutch zeel), Old High German seil (German Seil).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɑːl/

Noun

sāl m

  1. rope, cord, rein

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin salem, accusative of sāl.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsal]

Noun

sal f (plural sales)

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

Descendants

Portuguese

Saleiros com sal.

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese sal, from Latin sāl, salem (“salt, wit”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l- (“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)

Etymology 2

Noun

sal m (plural sais)

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

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (Turkish şal, from Persian شال‎ (šāl).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sal/

Noun

sal n (plural saluri)

  1. (rare) shawl, scarf
    Synonym: șal

Etymology 2

Shortened form of salut.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sa(ː)l/

Interjection

sal!

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

Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin sāl, salem., from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls.

Noun

sal m

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sal/
  • Rhymes: -al

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish sal, from Latin sāl, salem (compare Catalan sal, French sel, Italian sale, Portuguese sal, Romanian sare), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-, a root shared by English salt.

Noun

sal f (plural sales)

  1. salt; table salt
  2. (chemistry) salt
Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

sal

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

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

sal c

  1. a large room (for dining or meetings)

Declension

Declension of sal 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sal salen salar salarna
Genitive sals salens salars salarnas

Turkish

Noun

sal (definite accusative salı, plural sallar)

  1. raft

Verb

sal (third-person singular simple present salar)

  1. set free!

Venetian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin sāl, salem.

Noun

sal m (plural sałi)

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

sal m (plural sali)

  1. (chemistry) salt

Volapük

Noun

sal (plural sals)

  1. salt

Declension

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