dale

See also: Dale and dále

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deɪl/
• Rhymes: -eɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English dale, from Old English dæl, from Proto-Germanic *dalą. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Doal, Dutch dal, German Low German Daal, German Tal, Swedish dal, Danish dal, Norwegian dal, Icelandic dalur.

Noun

dale (plural dales)

1. (chiefly British) A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.

   Synonyms: dell, dells, vale

   • 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.

Derived terms

• Borrowdale
• Calderdale
• Castle Dale
• Clarksdale
• daleside
• Derbyshire Dales
• Lucedale
• Ribblesdale
• Swaledale
• Tindall
• Tweeddale
• up hill and down dale

 

Related terms

• dollar

Translations

valley

• Basque: ibar
• Bavarian: Thoi
• Belarusian: далі́на f (dalína)
• Bulgarian: долина (bg) f (dolina)
• Chamicuro: kajs̈hopi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山谷 (zh) (shāngǔ)

• Danish: dal (da) c
• Dutch: dal (nl) n, vallei (nl) f
• Faroese: dalur m
• Finnish: laakso (fi)
• French: combe (fr) f
• Galician: val m
• German: Tal (de) n

  Alemannic German: Dàl, Doal, Tau, Daal

  Rhine Franconian: Dahl (Palatine)

• Icelandic: dalur (is) m
• Italian: valle (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 谷 (ja) (たに, tani)
• Limburgish: doal
• Luxembourgish: Dall m
• Norwegian: dal (no) m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dal m
• Pennsylvania German: Daal, Waelli
• Persian: دره (fa) (dare)
• Polish: dolina (pl)
• Portuguese: vale (pt) m
• Russian: доли́на (ru) f (dolína)
• Serbo-Croatian: dol (sh), dolina (sh), udolina (sh)
• Slovene: dolína (sl) f
• Spanish: valle (es) m
• Swedish: dal (sv) c
• Turkish: vadi (tr)
• Ukrainian: доли́на f (dolýna)
• Welsh: dyffryn (cy), dôl

Etymology 2

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

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

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

• ALDE, Adel, Deal, Dela, E.D. La., Leda, adle, deal, lade, lead

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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

• stige

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Verb

dale

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

Anagrams

• adel, lade

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Gothic

Romanization

dale

1. Romanization of 𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌴

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• (Early ME) dæle, deale

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

Related terms

• dalke (probably)

Descendants

• English: dale
• Scots: dale, daal

References

• “dāle (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.

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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

• sale (Mexico)
• vale

Derived terms

• dale que dale

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Venetian

Adjective

dale f

1. feminine plural of dalo