salle
English
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
salle (plural salles)
- 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.
Synonyms
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.
Cognate with Old High German sal (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”) (whence German Saal), Old Norse salr (“room, hall”) (whence Icelandic salur), Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”). Cognate with Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish sala.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sal/
audio (file)
Noun
salle f (plural salles)
- hall
- room (in a house)
- front of house (public area of a restaurant, theatre, etc.)
- sports hall
Derived terms
- faire salle comble
- fille de salle
- garçon de salle
- salle à manger
- salle de bain
- salle de bains
- salle de bal
- salle de classe
- salle de concert
- salle de jeux
- salle de rédaction
- salle de réunion
- salle de séjour
- salle des machines
- salle des pas perdus
- salle des urgences
- salle d’accouchement
- salle d’armes
- salle d’attente
- salle d’audience
- salle d’op
Further reading
- “salle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
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”).
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”).
Pali
Alternative forms
- 𑀲𑀮𑁆𑀮𑁂 (Brahmi script)
- सल्ले (Devanagari script)
- সল্লে (Bengali script)
- සල්ලෙ (Sinhalese script)
- သလ္လေ or သလ်လေ (Burmese script)
- สลฺเล or สัลเล (Thai script)
- ᩈᩃᩖᩮ (Tai Tham script)
- ສລ຺ເລ or ສັລເລ (Lao script)
- សល្លេ (Khmer script)
- 𑄥𑄣𑄳𑄣𑄬 (Chakma script)
Spanish
Verb
salle
- inflection of sallar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative