sůl

Inherited from Old Czech sól, from Proto-Slavic *solь, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsuːl]

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• Hyphenation: sůl
• Rhymes: -uːl

sůl f

1. salt (A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.)
2. (chemistry) salt (One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.)
3. (cryptography) salt (Additional bytes inserted into a plaintext message before encryption, in order to increase randomness and render brute-force decryption more difficult.)

• “sůl”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “sůl”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “sůl”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025