dale

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See also: Dale and dále

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dāl, IPA(key): /deɪl/
  • Audio (UK):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English dale, from Old English dæl, from Proto-Germanic *dalą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰol-.

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Doal, Dutch dal, German Low German Daal, German Tal, Swedish dal, Danish dal, Norwegian dal, Icelandic dalur.[1]

Noun

dale (plural dales)

  1. (chiefly British) A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.
    Synonyms: dell, dells, vale
    • c. 1587, Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love:
      And we will all the pleasures prove / That hills and valleys, dales and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields
    • 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 57:
      Five miles meandering with a mazy motion, / Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, / Then reached the caverns measureless to man, / And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: [...]
    • 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “The Clock House at Nuncombe Putney”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 113:
      The country about Nuncombe Putney is perhaps as pretty as any in England. It is beyond the river Teign, between that and Dartmoor, and is so lovely in all its variations of rivers, rivulets, broken ground, hills and dales, old broken, battered, time-worn timber, green knolls, rich pastures, and heathy common, that the wonder is that English lovers of scenery know so little of it.
    • 1908, Edmund Louis Gruber, The Caissons Go Rolling Along:
      Over hill, over dale / As we hit the dusty trail, / And those caissons go rolling along.
  2. The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
    Antonym: hill
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Related to Low German daal or Dutch daal (“lowers, descends”) and French dalle (“trough; conduit”). Attested in English since the seventeenth century.[2]

Noun

dale (plural dales)

  1. (archaic) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
    • 1853, John Fincham, An Outline of Ship Building in Four Parts‎[1], page 40:
      The pump-dale scupper is that to which the dale leads, that conveys the water from the pumps to the side on the lower deck of large ships.

References

  1. ^ “Dale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC, retrieved 16 November 2017.
  2. ^ “dale, n.3”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From dal (“I exit, go out”); see dal for more.

Interjection

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  1. come out, get out (as a request, plea or as an order)

Etymology 2

Short form of ndal (“I halt, stop, rest, hold up”) (from n- +‎ dal). See ndal and dal for more.

Interjection

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  1. wait, stay, hold up
    Synonym: ndal
  2. don't hurry, relax, chill

Further reading

  • [2] interjection dale (dále) (plural daleni (dáleni)) • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)

Danish

Etymology 1

See dal.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /daːlə/, [ˈd̥æːlə]

Noun

dale c

  1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of dal

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German dalen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /daːlə/, [ˈd̥æːlə]

Verb

dale (imperative dal, infinitive at dale, present tense daler, past tense dalede, perfect tense har dalet)

  1. fall
  2. descend
  3. go down
  4. sink
  5. decrease
  6. fall off
  7. subside
  8. decline
Antonyms

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

dale

  1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dalen

Anagrams

Gothic

Romanization

dale

  1. Romanization of 𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌴

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English dæl, from Proto-Germanic *dala-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /daːl/, /dɛːl/, /dal/

Noun

dale (plural dales)

  1. A dale or valley.
  2. (rare) A hole or barrow.

Declension

    Declension of dale
Singular Plural
nominative, accusative dale dales
genitive dale dales
dative dale dalen

Descendants

  • English: dale
  • Scots: dale, daal

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdale/ [ˈd̪a.le]

Verb

dale

  1. Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of dar, da and the pronoun le.

Interjection

dale

  1. (Argentina) OK, okey dokey, right
    Synonyms: (Mexico) sale, vale

Derived terms

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowing from Spanish dale.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: da‧le
  • IPA(key): /ˈdale/, [ˈd̪aː.lɛ]

Noun

dale

  1. unprovoked attack (verbal or physical)
    Synonyms: tira, sabak, banat
  2. (colloquial) speaking out of turn
    Synonyms: satsat, daldal, tsismis

Derived terms

Interjection

dale

  1. go ahead!; go on!
    Synonyms: sige, sulong

Venetian

Adjective

dale f

  1. feminine plural of dalo
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