English

Noun

sala ‎(plural salas)

1. A large hall or reception room.

Etymology 2

From Thai ศาลา ‎(sǎa-laa).

Noun

sala ‎(plural salas)

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

Asturian

Noun

sala f ‎(plural sales)

1. room
2. hall

Catalan

Verb

sala

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

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. salty

Estonian

Etymology

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- ‎(šolšta-, “to steal”), Tundra Nenets талей ‎(“thief”), Tundra Nenets талесь ‎(“to steal”), Nganasan толар- ‎(“to conceal”), and Ket Selkup tuel- ‎(“secret”).

Adverb

sala

1. secretly

Synonyms

• salaja

Compounds

• salapolitsei
• salaagent

Related terms

• saladus
• salastama
• salajane

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *salan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Austronesian *zalan.

Noun

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)

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *sala ‎(“to hide, steal, thief”).

• Cognates include Estonian sala ‎(“secretly”), Northern Sami suoládit ‎(“to keep secret, to conceal”), Northern Sami suola ‎(“thief”), Eastern Mari šolšta- ‎(šolšta-, “to steal”), Tundra Nenets талей ‎(“thief”), Tundra Nenets талесь ‎(“to steal”), Nganasan толар- ‎(“to conceal”), and Ket Selkup tuel- ‎(“secret”).

Noun

sala

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

Declension

Synonyms

salaisuus

Derived terms

sala-

Compounds

Uralic etymology, Sergei Starostin

Anagrams

• alas

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.la/

Verb

sala

1. third-person singular past historic of saler

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse sala.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaːla/
• Rhymes: -aːla

Noun

sala f ‎(genitive singular sölu, nominative plural sölur)

1. sale (act of selling)

Declension

Italian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

French salle

Noun

sala f ‎(plural sale)

1. room
2. hall

Related terms

• saletta
• salettina
• salone

Etymology 2

Via Latin asse

Noun

sala f ‎(plural sale)

1. axis
2. sedge

Verb

sala

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

Latin

Noun

sala

1. nominative plural of salum
2. accusative plural of salum
3. vocative plural of salum

Latvian

Etymology 1

Sala

Sala

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 ἕlos ‎(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 остров ‎(óstrov, “island”), from Proto-Slavic *o-strovь, so that the original meaning would be “that which is surrounded by flowing (water)”). Others still 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]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sala]

Noun

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

Declension

Derived terms

• Britu salas
• salinieks, saliniece

Etymology 2

See sals.

Noun

sala m

1. genitive singular form of sals

Verb

sala

1. 3rd person singular past indicative form of salt
2. 3rd person plural past indicative form of salt

References

1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “sala”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

Lithuanian

Noun

sala f

1. island

Portuguese

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *salaz.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.la/, /ˈsa.lɐ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.lɐ/
• Hyphenation: sa‧la

Noun

sala f (plural salas)

1. room (division in a building)
2. (specifically) living room
3. classroom

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:sala.

Synonyms

• (room): aposento, câmara, quarto (especially a bedroom)
• (living room): sala de estar
• (classroom): sala de aula

Derived terms

Related terms

• ensalamento

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From German Saal.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sála f ‎(Cyrillic spelling са́ла)

1. (colloquial) hall, auditorium

Declension

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish [script needed] ‎(salȃ), from Arabic صلاة ‎(ṣalā̕).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sàla f ‎(Cyrillic spelling са̀ла)

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

Declension

Etymology 3

From Ottoman Turkish [script needed] ‎(sal)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sȁla f ‎(Cyrillic spelling са̏ла)

1. (regional, usually in the plural) stretcher

Declension

References

• “sala” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “sala” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• Abdulah Škaljić (1966), Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Svjetlost: Sarajevo, page 544

Spanish

Etymology 1

Proto-Germanic *sal, see also German Saal, Middle Low German seli, Old High German sal, from Proto-Indo-European *sel- ‎(“human settlement, village, dwelling”).

Noun

sala f ‎(plural salas)

1. room

   sala de estar — living room

2. large hall

Derived terms

• salón

Etymology 2

Verb

sala

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of salar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of salar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of salar.

Swahili

Noun

sala (n class, plural sala)

1. Alternative form of swala

Tagalog

Noun

sala

1. crime