salle

See also: sallé and šalle

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French salle. Doublet of sala and sale.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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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.

Synonyms

• salle d'armes

Anagrams

• El Sal., Sella

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.

Cognates:

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:

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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 salle ― to go to the gym

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

 

Descendants

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

See also

• chambre f
• pièce f
• salon m

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• allés

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

Alternative scripts

• 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)

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