salle
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French salle. Doublet of sala and sale.
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
salle (plural salles)
- A fencing school.
- 2001, Nick Evangelista, Anita Evangelista, The Woman Fencer:
- Your local fencing salle is a good place to relax and unwind and let the cares of the day take a backseat for a while. Meeting someone on the fencing strip, blade in hand, can become your only concern for two or three hours a couple of times a week.
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Albanian
Noun
salle
- indefinite dative/ablative singular of sallë
Estonian
Noun
salle
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French salle, from Old French sale (“a large room, large reception hall”), from Frankish *sal (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”). More at salon.
Cognate with Old High German sal (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”) (whence German Saal), Old Norse salr (“room, hall”) (whence Icelandic salur), Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”). Cognate with Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish sala.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sal/
Audio; “une salle”: (file) Audio (Switzerland (Valais)): (file) Audio (France (Toulouse)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file)
Noun
salle f (plural salles)
- hall
- room (in a house)
- front of house (public area of a restaurant, theatre, etc.)
- Coordinate term: arrière-salle
- en salle ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- sports hall
- (informal) gym
- aller à la salle ― to go to the gym
Derived terms
- faire salle comble
- fille de salle
- garçon de salle
- salle à manger
- salle d'accouchement
- salle d'armes
- salle d'attente
- salle d'audience
- salle de bain
- salle de bains
- salle de bal
- salle de classe
- salle de concert
- salle de jeux
- salle de rédaction
- salle de réunion
- salle de séjour
- salle de sport
- salle des machines
- salle des pas perdus
- salle des urgences
- salle d'op
Descendants
See also
Further reading
- “salle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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Middle French
Etymology
From Old French sale (“a large room, large reception hall”), from Frankish *sal (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”).
Noun
salle f (plural salles)
Norman
Etymology
From Old French sale (“a large room, large reception hall”), from Frankish *sal (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”).
Noun
salle f (plural salles)
Pali
Alternative forms
- 𑀲𑀮𑁆𑀮𑁂 (Brahmi script)
- सल्ले (Devanagari script)
- সল্লে (Bengali script)
- සල්ලෙ (Sinhalese script)
- သလ္လေ or သလ်လေ (Burmese script)
- สลฺเล or สัลเล (Thai script)
- ᩈᩃᩖᩮ (Tai Tham script)
- ສລ຺ເລ or ສັລເລ (Lao script)
- សល្លេ (Khmer script)
- 𑄥𑄣𑄳𑄣𑄬 (Chakma script)
Noun
salle
- inflection of salla (“dart; porcupine”):
- locative singular
- accusative plural
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsaʝe/ [ˈsa.ʝe] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /ˈsaʎe/ [ˈsa.ʎe] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /ˈsaʃe/ [ˈsa.ʃe] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /ˈsaʒe/ [ˈsa.ʒe] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -aʝe (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -aʎe (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -aʃe (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -aʒe (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: sa‧lle
Verb
salle
- inflection of sallar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative