sala

From Spanish sala, from Germanic. Compare Swedish sal. Doublet of salle and sale.

sala (plural salas)

1. A large hall or reception room.
2. (Philippines) A living room.
3. (Philippines, law) A courtroom.

• (sense 3): It is used only to refer to a specific branch of a Regional Trial Court, but not higher courts unlike in Spain.

Borrowed from Thai ศาลา (sǎa-laa), ultimately from Sanskrit शाला (śālā, “hall”).

sala (plural salas)

1. (Thailand) An open pavilion in Thailand used as a meeting place or to shelter from the weather.

Borrowed from Hindi साला (sālā).

• saala

sala (plural salas)

1. (India) A brother-in-law; a wife's brother.

• AALS, ALSA, Alas., LAAS, Lasa, aals, alas

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

• (Chungli) IPA^(key): /sa˥.la˩/, [sa˥.la˩]

sala

1. (Chungli) to unroll, open

• Clark, Mary M. (1893), Ao Naga grammar with illustrative phrases and vocabulary, Molung: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, page 144
• Clark, E. W. (1911), “SALA”, in Ao-Naga dictionary, Dimapur

Of Germanic origin, from Frankish *sali.

sala f (plural sales)

1. room
2. hall

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-cád.

sala

1. to work
2. to be employed

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsa.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsa.la]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Of Germanic origin, from Frankish *sali.

sala f (plural sales)

1. a large room (division of a building)

   Hypernym: cambra

2. hall (a meeting room)
3. living room

   Synonym: sala d'estar

• Often refers to a type of room outside the home used for a specific purpose, (e.g. hospital room, operating room, courtroom), often with a qualifier, as in sala d'operacions.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sala

1. inflection of salar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “sala”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “sala”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “sala” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sala” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Spanish sala (“living room”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsala/ [ˈs̪a.l̪ɐ]
• Hyphenation: sa‧la

sála (Badlit spelling ᜐᜎ)

1. living room

Unknown.

• Hyphenation: sa‧la
• IPA^(key): /ˈsala/ [ˈs̪a.l̪ɐ]

sála (Badlit spelling ᜐᜎ)

1. a tree, Lepidopetalum perrottetii

From either:

• Proto-Philippine *salaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *salaq.^[1]
• Malay salah ساله (“sin”), from Arabic زَلَّة (zalla, “error; slip; lapse; fault; sin”), with possible influence from Sanskrit चार (cāra, “trap; snare”), as in अपचार (apacāra, “offence”), or Sanskrit छल (chala, “deceit; fraud”).^[2]

• Hyphenation: sa‧la
• IPA^(key): /saˈlaʔ/ [s̪ɐˈl̪aʔ]

salâ (Badlit spelling ᜐᜎ)

1. (theology) sin

From either:

• Proto-Philippine *salaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *salaq.^[1]
• Malay salah, ساله (“sin”), from Arabic زَلَّة (zalla, “error; slip; lapse; fault; sin”), with possible influence from Sanskrit चार (cāra, “trap; snare”), as in अपचार (apacāra, “offence”), or Sanskrit छल (chala, “deceit; fraud”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /saˈlaʔ/ [saˈl̪aʔ]
• Hyphenation: sa‧la

salâ (plural sarala, Basahan spelling ᜐᜎ)

1. wrong; incorrect; mistaken

   Antonym: tama

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalaʔ/ [ˈsa.l̪aʔ]
• Hyphenation: sa‧la

salà (Basahan spelling ᜐᜎ)

1. fault; error; mistake; blunder

Borrowed from Spanish sala (“room”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsala/ [ˈsa.l̪a]
• Hyphenation: sa‧la

sála (Basahan spelling ᜐᜎ)

1. living room
2. parlor

From salo (“salt”) +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsala/

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• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: sa‧la

sala (accusative singular salan, plural salaj, accusative plural salajn)

1. salty

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From Proto-Uralic *sala (“to hide, steal, thief”). Cognate to Finnish sala (“secret”), Northern Sami suoládit (“to keep secret, to conceal”), Northern Sami suola (“thief”), Eastern Mari šolšta- (“to steal”), Tundra Nenets талей (talyey°, “thief”), Tundra Nenets талесь (talyesʹ°, “to steal”), Nganasan толар- (tolar-, “to conceal”), and Ket Selkup tuel- (“secret”).

sala (not comparable)

1. secretly

   Synonym: salaja

From Proto-Central Pacific *sala, variant of *cala, from Proto-Oceanic *salan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Austronesian *zalan.

sala

1. path (a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians)
2. path (a course taken)
3. road (a way for travel)
4. road (a path in life)
5. street (paved part of road in a village or a town)

From Proto-Finnic *sala, from Proto-Uralic *sala (“to hide, steal, thief”). Cognates include Estonian sala (“secretly”), Livonian salātõ (“to hide something”), Northern Sami suoládit (“to keep secret, to conceal”), Northern Sami suola (“thief”), Erzya саламс (salams, “to steal”), Eastern Mari шолышташ (šolyštaš, “to steal”), Tundra Nenets талей (talyey°, “thief”), Tundra Nenets талесь (talyesʹ°, “to steal”), Nganasan толар- (tolar-, “to conceal”), and Ket Southern Selkup [script needed] (tuel-, “secret”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑlɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝lɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑ
• Syllabification^(key): sa‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): sa‧la

sala

1. (dated) secret (currently used mostly idiomatically and as modifier in compound terms)

   Synonym: salaisuus

   olla salassa ― to be (a) secret

   jäädä salaan ― to be left a secret

2. (as a modifier in compounds) secret, clandestine, concealed

   ‎sala + ‎ampuja (“shooter”) → ‎sala-ampuja (“sniper”, literally “secret shooter”)

   ‎sala + ‎kari (“rock”) → ‎salakari (“sunken rock, (figuratively) pitfall”)

   ‎sala + ‎kieli (“language”) → ‎salakieli (“code, cipher, argot”, literally “secret language”)

   ‎sala + ‎kuljettaa (“to transport”) → ‎salakuljettaa (“to smuggle”, literally “to transport secretly”)

   ‎sala + ‎kuunnella (“to listen”) → ‎salakuunnella (“to eavesdrop, bug, wiretap”, literally “to listen secretly”)

   ‎sala + ‎liitto (“alliance, league”) → ‎salaliitto (“conspiracy”, literally “secret alliance/league”)

   ‎sala + ‎murha (“murder”) → ‎salamurha (“assassination”, literally “secret murder”)

   ‎sala + ‎nimi (“name”) → ‎salanimi (“assumed name, pen name, pseudonym, stage name”, literally “secret name”)

   ‎sala + ‎oja (“ditch”) → ‎salaoja (“subsurface drain”, literally “secret ditch”)

   ‎sala + ‎poliisi (“police officer”) → ‎salapoliisi (“detective”, literally “secret police officer”)

   ‎sala + ‎sana (“word”) → ‎salasana (“password”, literally “secret word”)

   ‎sala + ‎seura (“society, club”) → ‎salaseura (“secret society”)

• “sala”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
• “sala-”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[5] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• alas

• IPA^(key): /sa.la/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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sala

1. third-person singular past historic of saler

sala

1. to pull

sala

1. sin
2. crime

From Old Norse sala, from Proto-Germanic *salō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaːla/
• Rhymes: -aːla

sala f (genitive singular sölu, nominative plural sölur)

1. sale (act of selling)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsala/ [ˈsɐ.la]
• Hyphenation: sa‧la

sala (plural salla, Kur-itan spelling ᜐᜎ)

1. dance

From Sanskrit शाल (śāla, “Shorea robusta”, literally “house, hall”). Doublet of salam and syala.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsala/ [ˈsa.la]
• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: sa‧la

sala (plural sala-sala)

1. (botany) East Asian eurya (Eurya japonica).

   Synonyms: beberas, betutu, jirak

• “sala”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Proto-Finnic *sala (“secret”). Cognates include Finnish sala.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑlɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑɫɑˑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑlɑ/, [ˈʃɑɫɑˑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑ
• Hyphenation: sa‧la

sala

1. (in compounds) secret

Declension of sala (type 3/kana, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	sala	salat
genitive	salan	salloin
partitive	sallaa	saloja
illative	sallaa	salloi
inessive	salas	salois
elative	salast	saloist
allative	salalle	saloille
adessive	salal	saloil
ablative	salalt	saloilt
translative	salaks	saloiks
essive	salanna, sallaan	saloinna, salloin
exessive1)	salant	saloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 501

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.la/

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• Homophone: Sala
• Rhymes: -ala
• Hyphenation: sà‧la

Borrowed from French salle.

sala f (plural sale)

1. room

   Synonyms: stanza, camera

2. hall

Via Latin asse.

sala f (plural sale)

1. axis
2. sedge

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sala

1. inflection of salare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

sala

1. romanization of ꦱꦭ

Borrowed from Kongo sala.

sala

1. to work

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-cád.

sala

1. to act
2. to do
3. to make
4. to work

There are different opinions on the origin of this word. Some derive it from Proto-Baltic *sel-, *sal-, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, a variant of *ser- (“to flow”); in this case, the original meaning would have been “stream, river,” from which “body of water”(cf. Lithuanian sálti (“to flow slowly”), Ancient Greek ἕλος (hélos, “swamp”) (< *selos), Sanskrit सरः (sáraḥ, “lake, pond”), perhaps also Latin insula < *in-sal-, and several river names: Salaca, Salica > Selke in Germany, Salate), then “something inside (a body of water),” “island.” Others derive sala from *ap(i)sala, from a verb meaning “to flow” (cf. Russian о́стров (óstrov, “island”), from Proto-Slavic *o-strovь, so that the original meaning would be “that which is surrounded by flowing (water)”). Still others consider sala to come from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to swell”), with as original meaning “(river) silt, deposits, sediments.” Cognates include Lithuanian salà; comparable Baltic-Finnic terms (Livonian sala (“island”), Estonian salu (“swamp island”), Finnish salo (“forest island; forest”)) are considered as borrowings from Baltic.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [sala]

sala f (4th declension)

1. island (relatively small amount of land surrounded by water in a river, sea, or ocean)

   okeāna, jūras, ezera sala ― ocean, sea, lake island

   salu grupas ― groups of islands

   vulkāniskā sala ― Volcanic island

   sanesumu sala ― drift island

   kontinentālā sala ― continental island

   koraļļu sala ― coral island

   Madagaskaras sala ― the island of Madagascar

2. island (higher place in a swamp or forest)

   cilvēki rakuši mantu zemē un ar lopiem un vezumiem mēģinājuši noslēpties silos un purvu salās ― the people hid their property in the land and with (their) cattle and wagons tried to hide in the pine forest and swamp islands

• Britu salas
• salinieks, saliniece

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sala m

1. genitive singular of sals

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sala

1. third-person singular/plural past indicative of salt

Borrowed from Bangi sala.

-sala (infinitive kosala)

1. to do

Cognate with Proto-Germanic *salą and Old Church Slavonic село (selo).

salà f (plural sãlos) stress pattern 4

1. isle, island

sala

1. obsolete spelling of salā

Borrowed from a Baltic language, compare Lithuanian sala; related to Proto-Finnic *salo, but a parallel borrowing.

sala

1. (obsolete) island

• Andreas Johan Sjögren, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann (1861), Livisch-deutsches und deutsch-livisches Wörterbuch

Borrowed from Sicilian sala and/or Italian sala, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *saliz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.la/
• Rhymes: -aːla

sala f (plural swali or swalijiet)

1. hall, large room

From Proto-Bantu *-tígada, derived from Proto-Bantu *-tíga.

-sála

1. to remain

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

From Old Norse sǫðla, from Proto-Germanic *sadulōną.

• sale (with e or split infinitive)

sala (present tense salar, past tense sala, past participle sala, passive infinitive salast, present participle salande, imperative sala/sal)

1. (transitive) to saddle

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• sali (archaic)

sala n

1. definite plural of sal

Uncertain, but may be related to såla, or even sala (Etymology 1).

• sale (with e or split infinitive)

sala (present tense salar, past tense sala, past participle sala, passive infinitive salast, present participle salande, imperative sala/sal)

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• “sala” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• alas, asal, Laas, laas, Saal, saal

From Hausa sallā̀, from Arabic صَلَاة (ṣalāh).

• IPA^(key): /sá.lā/

sála

1. (Islam) prayer, salat

   Kókóta jin sála, eshìgi bà àdúwa. ― Lice do salat, dogs do prayer

2. (Islam) religious holiday

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *salō (“delivery”), from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- (“to grab”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑ.lɑ/

sala m

1. a sale

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “sala”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

sala

1. genitive plural of salr

From Spanish sala and Portuguese sala and Kabuverdianu sála.

sala

1. living room, sitting room
2. lounge

From Spanish salar and Kabuverdianu salga.

sala

1. to salt (add salt)

sala (plural sajsala)

1. pants; trousers

• Campbell, L. (1985). The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Mouton De Gruyter.
• Lara-Martínez, R., McCallister, R. Glosario cultural náwat pipil y nicarao.

Borrowed from French salle.^[1] First attested in the 16th century.^[2]

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• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: sa‧la
• Homophone: Sala

sala f (diminutive salka, related adjective salowy)

1. assembly hall (large room where people gather)

   Synonym: aula

   1. assembly hall (those gathered in such a room)
   2. (rare) seats in an assembly hall
2. (obsolete) dance studio
3. (obsolete) living room

   Synonym: salon

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), sala is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 38 times in news, 12 times in essays, 27 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 94 times, making it the 672nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[3]

• sala in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sala in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “SALA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 28.10.2008
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “sala”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “sala”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “sala”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 9

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese sala, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *salą. Doublet of Sá.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.la/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: -alɐ
• Hyphenation: sa‧la

sala f (plural salas)

1. room (division in a building)

   Synonyms: aposento, câmara, (especially a bedroom) quarto

2. ellipsis of sala de estar (“living room”)
3. ellipsis of sala de aula (“classroom”)
4. (metonymic) class (group of students)

   Synonyms: turma, classe

   • 2015, Roberto Avila, A raiz de todo o mal, Clube de Autores, page 297:

     Quando eu digitei as notas percebi que tem coisas muito incoerentes. Alunos frequentes que ficaram com muitas faltas em uma única matéria. Aluno com o boletim inteiro de notas vermelhas, mas com uma nota dez em uma matéria. Professor que deu nota oito para sala inteira, até para os alunos que não frequentaram as aulas. Tem cada coisa absurda que a gente vai ter que consertar agora.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• → Konkani: साल (sāl)
• → Tetum: sala

• “sala”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “sala”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “sala” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “sala”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “sala”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “sala”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

sala

1. to do

Borrowed from German Saal, adapted with the feminine suffix -a.

• IPA^(key): /sǎːla/
• Hyphenation: sa‧la

sála f (Cyrillic spelling са́ла)

1. (colloquial) hall, auditorium

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صلا (sala), from Arabic صَلَاة (ṣalāh).

• IPA^(key): /sǎla/
• Hyphenation: sa‧la

sàla f (Cyrillic spelling са̀ла)

1. (Islam) a prayer recited by a muezzin on a minaret on the occasion of someone's death

From Ottoman Turkish صال (sal).

• IPA^(key): /sâla/
• Hyphenation: sa‧la

sȁla f (Cyrillic spelling са̏ла)

1. (regional, usually in the plural) stretcher (clarification of this definition is needed.)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sala (Cyrillic spelling сала)

1. genitive singular of salo

• “sala”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• “sala”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• Škaljić, Abdulah (1966), Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 544

From Proto-Bantu *-tígada, derived from Proto-Bantu *-tíga.

-sála

1. to remain

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsala/ [ˈsa.la]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: sa‧la

From a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *saliz, see also German Saal, Middle Low German seli, Old High German sal, from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”). Cognate with French salle (“room”). Compare English salon. Compare Dutch zaal.

sala f (plural salas)

1. room (a separate part of a building)

   Synonyms: cuarto, ambiente, habitación, pieza, recámara

   sala de estar ― living room

2. large hall
3. ward (section of a hospital)
4. courtroom

• → Cebuano: sala
• → Tagalog: sala

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sala

1. inflection of salar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “sala”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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sala class IX (plural sala class X)

1. alternative form of swala (“prayer”)

From Proto-Bantu *-tígada, derived from Proto-Bantu *-tíga.

-sála

1. (intransitive) to stay behind, to remain

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From either:

• Inherited from Proto-Philippine *salaq (compare Aklanon saea, Central Bikol sala, Cebuano sala, Maranao sala', Mansaka sara, and Tausug sā'), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *salaq (compare Fijian cala, Hawaiian hala, Malay salah, Māori hara, and Samoan sala).^[1]
• Borrowed from Classical Malay ساله (salah, “sin”), from Arabic زَلَّة (zalla, “error; slip; lapse; fault; sin”), with possible influence from Sanskrit चार (cāra, “trap; snare”), as in अपचार (apacāra, “offence”), or Sanskrit छल (chala, “deceit; fraud”).^[2]

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈsala/ [ˈsaː.lɐ], (nonstandard) /ˈsalaʔ/ [ˈsaː.lɐʔ] (“fault; mistake; sin”, noun; “wrong, mistaken; unsuitable”, adjective)
    • Rhymes: -ala, (nonstandard) -alaʔ
  • IPA^(key): /saˈlaʔ/ [sɐˈlaʔ] (“wrong, mistaken”, adjective)
    • Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: sa‧la

sala or salà (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ)

1. fault; guilt; blame

   Synonyms: kasalanan, bisala

2. error; mistake

   Synonyms: mali, kamalian, pagkamali, bisala

3. sin; offense

   Synonyms: kasalanan, pagkakasala

4. miss; failure to hit a target

   Synonyms: mintis, pagmintis

sala (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ)

1. wrong; mistaken

   Synonyms: mali, lisya

2. off the mark

   Synonyms: mintis, nagmintis, lihis, lumihis

3. unsuitable; bad for; contrary to (as of some food)

salâ (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ)

1. wrong; mistaken

   Synonyms: mali, lisya, di-tama

Borrowed from Spanish sala (“room”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsala/ [ˈsaː.lɐ]
• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: sa‧la

sala (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ)

1. living room; reception room; parlor

• salas

From Proto-Philippine *sáraʔ (“sift; strain; filter”). Compare Masbatenyo sara, Central Bikol sara, Aklanon saea, Cebuano sala, Surigaonon saya, Maranao sara, and Tausug sā'.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈsalaʔ/ [ˈsaː.lɐʔ] (“filtering; irrigation dam”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -alaʔ
  • IPA^(key): /saˈlaʔ/ [sɐˈlaʔ] (“filtered, sifted”, adjective)
    • Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: sa‧la

salà (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ)

1. filtering; straining

   Synonyms: pagsala, pagsasala

2. irrigation dam

salâ (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ)

1. filtered; sifted (of water or liquid)

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈla/ [sɐˈla]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: sa‧la

salá (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ)

1. act of interweaving bamboo slats (especially for the railing of a batalan)

   Synonym: pagsasala

2. railing made of bamboo slats; lattice; trellis

   Synonym: sala-sala

salá (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ)

1. interwoven (of bamboo slats, etc.)

   Synonyms: sala-sala, lala-lala

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *salaq. Compare Javanese ꦱꦭꦃꦲꦸꦫꦠ꧀ (salah urat).

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈsalaʔ/ [ˈsaː.lɐʔ] (“physical defect”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -alaʔ
  • IPA^(key): /saˈlaʔ/ [sɐˈlaʔ] (“broken; dislocated”, adjective)
    • Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: sa‧la

salà (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ)

1. physical defect (such as a broken bone, sprain, or bone dislocation)

salâ (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ)

1. broken or dislocated (of one's bones)

   Synonyms: bali, (dislocated) linsad

Borrowed from Arabic صَلَاة (ṣalāh). Compare Maranao salat, Tausug salat, Indonesian salat, and Malay solat.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈla/ [sɐˈla]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: sa‧la

salá (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ) (Islam)

1. salat (Islamic prayer)

• salah, salaah

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsalaʔ/ [ˈsaː.lɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -alaʔ
• Syllabification: sa‧la

salà (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ) (dialectal, Quezon)

1. bedwetting; urination in bed, or during sleep

• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.‎^[6] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.
• Rosalio Serrano (1854), Diccionario de terminos comunes tagalo-castellano‎^[7] (in Spanish), page 118
• Manuel, E. Arsenio (1971), A Lexicographic Study of Tayabas Tagalog of Quezon Province, Quezon City: Diliman Review, page 309

• laas, asal, alsa, alas, lasa

From Malay salah.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsa.la]

sala

1. fault, mistake

sala

1. (stative) to be at fault
2. (stative) to be wrong, incorrect

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *salaq, compare Malay salah.

sala

1. fault, mistake

sala

1. to err, to do wrong

sala

1. incorrect

Borrowed from Portuguese sala.

sala

1. room
2. classroom

• “sala”, in Dicionário infopédia: Tetum-English, Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026

From Proto-Bantu *-tígada, the extensive form of Proto-Bantu *-tíga.

sala

1. to remain

From Proto-Bantu *-tígada, derived from Proto-Bantu *-tíga.

sala

1. to remain

From Proto-Bantu *-tígada, derived from Proto-Bantu *-tíga.

-sála

1. (intransitive) to stay

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-tígada, the extensive form of Proto-Bantu *-tíga.

-sála

1. (intransitive) to remain, stay behind, be left over

• -shiya

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “sala”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “sala (3.9)”