valse

From French valse. Doublet of waltz.

• IPA^(key): /vɑls/
• Rhymes: -ɑls

valse (plural valses)

1. Archaic form of waltz.

valse (third-person singular simple present valses, present participle valsing, simple past and past participle valsed)

1. Archaic form of waltz.

• avels, evals, selva, Laves, Elvas, Veals, 'alves, slave, Slavé, Alves, Selva, salve, Levas, laves, vales, veals, Slave

valse c

1. indefinite plural of vals

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valse

1. inflection of vals:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

• walse (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /vals/

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Borrowed from German Walzer.

valse f (plural valses)

1. waltz

• valse musette
• valse viennoise
• valser

• → Arabic: فَالْس (fāls)
• → English: valse
• → Greek: βαλς (vals)
• → Manx: valse
• → Ottoman Turkish: والس (vals)
  • Turkish: vals
• → Persian: والس (vâls)
• → Portuguese: valsa
• → Romanian: vals
• → Russian: вальс (valʹs) (see there for further descendants)
• → Ukrainian: вальс (valʹs)

valse

1. inflection of valser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “valse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• laves, lavés
• levas
• salve
• slave, Slave

Attested since 1850. From French valse or Spanish vals, ultimately from German Walzer, from walzen (“to dance”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbalsɪ]

valse m (plural valses)

1. waltz
   • 1850, Juan López Muñiz, Paisaniña:

     A gaita e o tamboril
     Co máis ardente antusiasmo
     Tocando unha muiñeiriña
     Un valse repenicado
     Unha alegre salerosa
     Unh'alborada ou fandango

     Bagpipe and tabor
     With the most burning enthusiasm
     Playing a muiñeira,
     an allegro waltz
     a jovial salerosa,
     an alborada or a fandango

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “valse”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “valse”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “valse”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈval.se/
• Rhymes: -alse
• Hyphenation: vàl‧se

valse

1. third-person singular past historic of valere

• Selva, salve, selva, slave, svela

valse m

1. locative singular of valsas
2. vocative singular of valsas

Borrowed from German Walzer.

valse f (plural valses)

1. (Jersey) waltz

valse m (definite singular valsen, indefinite plural valser, definite plural valsene)

1. alternative form of vals (sense 2)

From vals or valse (roller) and vals (waltz).

valse (imperative vals, present tense valser, passive valses, simple past and past participle valsa or valset, present participle valsende)

1. to roll (with rollers)
2. to waltz (dance a waltz)

• “valse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “valse_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “valse_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “valse_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

valse m (definite singular valsen, indefinite plural valsar, definite plural valsane)

1. alternative form of vals (sense 2)

From vals or valse (roller) and vals (waltz).

valse (present tense valsar, past tense valsa, past participle valsa, passive infinitive valsast, present participle valsande, imperative valse/vals)

1. to roll (with rollers)
2. to waltz (dance a waltz)

• valsa

• “valse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -alsɨ, (Brazil) -awsi
• Hyphenation: val‧se

valse

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalse/ [ˈbal.se]
• Rhymes: -alse
• Syllabification: val‧se

valse m (plural valses)

1. waltz

valse

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

• “valse”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

valse

1. alternative form of fause
   • 1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, in APPENDIX^[1]:

     Valse Vurlonge,

     False Furlong.

valse

1. alternative form of fause
   • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, lines 14^[2]:

     Thou liest valse co secun that thou an ye thick

     You lie false, said the second, that you and your kid,