sal

sal (uncountable)

1. (chemistry, obsolete) salt

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

• saul, shala

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.

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

From Dutch zal.

• IPA^(key): /sal/

sal (present sal, past sou)

1. shall, will

sal f

1. salt

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “sal”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Latin sāl, salem.

sal m (plural sales)

1. salt

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

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

sal f (plural sals)

1. salt

• salar

sal

1. sun

• 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)

From Spanish sal (“salt”).

sal

1. salt

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

sal c (singular definite salen, plural indefinite sale)

1. hall, room

• retssal

sal

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

From Latin sāl, salem.

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sal f

1. salt

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese sal, from Latin sāl, salem.

• IPA^(key): [s̺al]

sal m

1. salt

• saleiro

• As Saíñas

• “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.

From Portuguese sal. Cognates with Kabuverdianu sal.

sal

1. salt

sal

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

sal (plural sales)

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

• salin

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

1. Alternative form of sail (“dirt; stain”)

As masculine first-declension noun:

As feminine second-declension noun:

From Latin sāl, salem.

sal

1. salt

From Portuguese sal.

sal

1. salt

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑːl/

sal f

1. year

From Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /saːl/, [saːɫ]

sāl m or n (genitive salis); third declension

1. salt

   cum grānō salis ― with a grain of salt

2. (figuratively) wit

• salō
• saliō
• sāl petrae, sāl petræ (stone salt; that is, found as an incrustation)

sal

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

From Old Norse salr.

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.

From Old Norse sǫðull.

• sadel

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

1. saddle

• “sal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /sɑːl/ (example of pronunciation)

From Old Norse salr.

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

From Old Norse sǫðull.

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

1. saddle

From Old Norse sal (“payment”).

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

1. sale

• selja, selje
• marknad

• “sal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

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

• IPA^(key): /sɑːl/

sāl m

1. rope, cord, rein

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• English: sole

From Latin salem, accusative of sāl.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsal]

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.

• salado
• salgadumbre
• salgadura

• Spanish: sal

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɫ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsaw/
• Rhymes: -aw

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

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

• salzinho (diminutive)

sal m (plural sais)

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

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

• IPA^(key): /sal/

sal n (plural saluri)

1. (rare) shawl, scarf

   Synonym: șal

Shortened form of salut.

• IPA^(key): /sa(ː)l/

sal!

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

• salut (1, 2)
• pa (2)

• (Puter) sel

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

sal m

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

• IPA^(key): /sal/
• Rhymes: -al

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.

sal f (plural sales)

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

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

sal

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

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

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sal c

1. a large room (for dining or meetings)

• hörsal
• matsal

Compare Tocharian A trak

sal

1. dirty

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sal (definite accusative salı, plural sallar)

1. raft

From Ottoman Turkish سل‎ (sal, sel), from Arabic سَلَّ‎ (salla, “to draw, to unsheathe”).

sal

1. second-person singular imperative of salmak

• 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

• sale

From Latin sāl, salem.

sal m (plural sałi)

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

sal m (plural sali)

1. (chemistry) salt

sal (plural sals)

1. salt