salle

See also: sallé, šalle, and sallë

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French salle. Doublet of sala and sale.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

salle (plural salles)

  1. 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

  1. indefinite dative/ablative singular of sallë

Estonian

Noun

salle

  1. partitive plural of sall

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sal/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

salle f (plural salles)

  1. hall
  2. room (in a house)
  3. 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)
  4. sports hall
  5. (informal) gym
    aller à la salleto go to the gym

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: sal, lasal
  • Italian: sala
  • Vietnamese: xan

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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)

  1. room

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)

  1. (Jersey) living room

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

salle

  1. inflection of salla (dart; porcupine):
    1. locative singular
    2. accusative plural

Spanish

Verb

salle

  1. inflection of sallar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative