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From Latin salarium (“salt money, money to buy salt with”), from sal (“salt”)
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- Homophone: celery (in some dialects)
salary (plural salaries)
- A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually measured on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
- 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
- Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
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fixed amount of money paid on monthly or annual basis
- Arabic: راتب (ar) (raatib) m, أجر (ar) ('ájr) m
- Moroccan Arabic: (informal) كنزة (kenza) f, اجرة (ejra) f
- Azeri: aylıq (az)
- Bulgarian: заплата (bg) (zapláta) f
- Catalan: salari m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 薪金 (cmn) (xīnjīn), 薪水 (cmn) (xīnshui), 工資 (cmn), 工资 (cmn) (gōngzī)
- Czech: plat (cs) m
- Dutch: salaris (nl) n, loon (nl) n
- Esperanto: salajro (eo)
- Finnish: palkka (fi), liksa (fi)
- French: salaire (fr) m
- German: Gehalt (de) n
- Greek: μισθός (el) (misthós) m
- Hebrew: משכורת (he) (maskoret) f, שכר (he) (sakhar) m
- Hindi: तनख़्वाह (hi) (tanaḵẖvāha), वेतन (hi) (vētana), मासिक वेतन (hi) (māsika vētana)
- Hungarian: fizetés (hu)
- Icelandic: laun (is) n pl, föst laun (is) n pl, kaup (is) n
- Interlingua: salario
- Italian: stipendio (it) m, salario (it) m
- Japanese: サラリー (ja) (sararī), 給料 (ja) (きゅうりょう, kyūryō)
- Korean: 급료 (ko) (給料, geumnyo), 봉급 (ko) (俸給, bonggeup), 임금 (ko) (賃金, imgeum)
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- Kurdish: meaş (ku) m, miz (ku) m, muçe (ku) m, mehane (ku) f, مهعاش (ku)
- Latin: salarium n
- Malay:
- Rumi: gaji (ms), ujrah (ms)
- Jawi: ݢاجي (ms), اجره (ms)
- Meru: muchaara
- Norwegian: lønn (no) c
- Persian: حقوق (fa)
- Polish: pensja (pl) f, płaca (pl) f, wynagrodzenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: salário (pt) m
- Romanian: salariu (ro) n
- Russian: заработная плата (ru) (zárabotnaja pláta) f, зарплата (ru) (zarpláta) f, жалование (ru) (žálovanije) n
- Scottish Gaelic: tuarasdal (gd) m, tuarastal (gd) f
- Slovak: plat (sk) m
- Spanish: salario (es) m, sueldo (es) m
- Swahili: mshahara (sw)
- Swedish: lön (sv) c
- Tamil: சம்பளம் (cambaLam)
- Telugu: జీతం (te) (jeetam)
- Turkish: aylık (tr), maaş (tr)
- Vietnamese: lương (vi)
- Walloon: traitmint (wa) m, salåre (wa) m
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salary (third-person singular simple present salaries, present participle salarying, simple past and past participle salaried)
- To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.
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