salo

From Russian са́ло (sálo) or Ukrainian са́ло (sálo), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *sadlo.

salo (uncountable)

1. a type of fatback, or non-rendered underskin pig fat consumed in Central and Eastern Europe, usually seasoned
   • 2009 January 31, Michael Schwirtz, “Russia and Cuba Take Steps to Revive a Bond”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     […] Mr. Castro waxed nostalgic, recounting the time he and Soviet comrades sat around a campfire in the forest eating salo, the cured pig fat that is a staple chaser of Russian vodka.

• salo (food) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• ASLO, LAOS, LOAs, Laos, Loas, also, loas, soal, sola

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsa.lu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsa.lo]

salo

1. first-person singular present indicative of salar

From Italian sale, from Latin sāl (“salt”). Doublet of saŭco and salso.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalo/

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• Rhymes: -alo
• Syllabification: sa‧lo

salo (accusative singular salon, plural saloj, accusative plural salojn)

1. salt

• kuirsalo (“cooking salt”)

• sala
• sali

• laso, sola

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑlo/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝lo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Syllabification^(key): sa‧lo
• Hyphenation^(key): sa‧lo

From Proto-Finnic *salo, probably borrowed from Baltic.

salo

1. a deep forest, wilderness
   • 1856, “Suomen salossa”, Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen (lyrics), Juhana Ennola (music):

     Honkaen keskellä mökkini seisoo
     Suomeni soreassa salossa.
     Honkaen väliltä sintävä selkä
     Vilkkuvi koittehen valossa.
     Hoi laari laa!
     Kaiku mun saloni, Suomeni maa!

     [Honkain keskellä mökkini seisoo
     Suomeni soreassa salossa.
     Honkain väliltä siintävä selkä
     Vilkkuvi koittehen valossa.
     Hoi laari laa!
     Kaikuu mun saloni, Suomeni maa!]

     Amidst the (straight) pine trees stands my cabin
     in the graceful wilderness of (my) Finland
     From amidst the pine trees looms the lake
     glimmering in the light of dawn
     [non-lexical]
     Rings out my wilderness of my Finnish land!

2. (archaic) a forested island

• “salo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

From Slavic.

salo

1. salo (non-rendered underskin pig fat)

• Laos, olas, sola

• IPA^(key): /sá.lóː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [sə́.lóː]

salō m (possessed form salon)

1. style, fashion, pattern
2. affectation

• Newman, Paul (2007), A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 177.

Borrowed from Esperanto salo, Latin sāl, Italian sale, Spanish sal.

salo (plural sali)

1. salt

salo

1. first-person singular present indicative of salare

• Laos, sola

salō

1. dative/ablative singular of salum

• “salo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “salo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “salo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “salo”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saləʀ. Cf. Tagalog sahig.

salo (mutated form zalo)

1. floor

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 181.

From Proto-West Germanic *salu, from Proto-Germanic *salwaz.

salo

1. dusky, grey

• Middle Dutch: salu, saluwe
  • Dutch: zaluw

“salo”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sadlo.

• IPA^(key): /sâlo/
• Hyphenation: sa‧lo

sȁlo n (Cyrillic spelling са̏ло)

1. fat

   Salo debeloga jera libo azbukoprotres ― Fat of the Thick Yer i.e. Alphabet Reshuffling (publication by Serbian linguist Sava Mrkalj)

• “salo”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

salo (Cyrillic spelling сало)

1. vocative singular of sala

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalo/ [ˈsa.lo]
• Rhymes: -alo
• Syllabification: sa‧lo

salo

1. first-person singular present indicative of salar

From Proto-Central Philippine *salú (“catch in hand”). Compare Central Bikol salo, Cebuano salo, and Hiligaynon salo.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈlo/ [sɐˈlo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: sa‧lo

saló (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎᜓ)

1. catching with one's hand (of a ball, etc.)

   Synonyms: sambot, pagsambot

2. supporting from under an object (especially with one's hand)

   Synonyms: sapo, pagsapo, sapupo, pagsapupo

3. undersupport; prop

   Synonyms: tukod, talukod, sapo

4. taking over of a task left by another

From Proto-Central Philippine *sálu (“to eat together”). Compare Kapampangan salu, Central Bikol salo, Aklanon saeo, Cebuano salo, Hiligaynon salo, Waray-Waray saro, and Tausug sāw.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsalo/ [ˈsaː.lo]
• Rhymes: -alo
• Syllabification: sa‧lo

salo (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎᜓ)

1. eating with another or together (especially on the same plate)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsaloʔ/ [ˈsaː.loʔ]
• Rhymes: -aloʔ
• Syllabification: sa‧lo

salò (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎᜓ)

1. mechanical catch (in necklaces, bracelets, etc.)

   Synonyms: pakaw, sakla, bikling

• “salo”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “salo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

• Laos, laos, also, laso

Compare Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *suluq (“torch”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.lo/

salo

1. resin
2. a resin-torch

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

Cognate with Ternate salo (“resin”).

• IPA^(key): /s̪a.ˈl̪o/

salo

1. resin

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[3], Pacific linguistics (as saló)