salad

English

A salad.

Alternative forms

• sallet [16th-19th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English salade, from Old French salade, borrowed from Northern Italian salada, salata (compare insalata), from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal (“salt”). Vegetables were seasoned with brine or salty oil-and-vinegar dressings during Roman times.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsæləd/
• enPR: SAH-luhd

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Noun

salad (countable and uncountable, plural salads)

1. A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
   • c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act 4, scene 5]:

     Lafeu. ’Twas a good lady, ’twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb.
     Clown. Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the salad, or rather, the herb of grace.

   chicken salad

   We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.

2. A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.

Derived terms

• Caesar salad
• chef salad
• chicken salad air
• Chilean salad
• Cobb salad
• congealed salad
• corn salad
• egg salad
• field salad
• frog-eye salad
• fruit salad
• garden salad
• Glasgow salad
• gorilla salad
• Greek salad
• Israeli salad
• Jello salad
• jumping salad
• millionaire's salad
• mimosa salad
• Niçoise salad
• Olivier salad
• pasta salad
• poke salad
• potato salad
• rocket salad
• Russian salad
• salad bar
• salad bowl
• salad cream
• salad days
• salad dodger
• salad dressing
• salad fork
• salad greens
• salading
• saladless
• saladlike
• salad oil
• salad onion
• salad shooter
• salad spinner
• salady
• salad year
• salad years
• seafood salad
• Serbian salad
• Serbo-Croatian salad
• seven-layer salad
• shopska salad
• Snickers salad
• taco salad
• tomato salad
• tossed salad
• toss someone's salad
• tuna salad
• Waldorf salad
• Watergate salad
• wedge salad
• word salad

 

Related terms

• taramosalata

Translations

food

• Albanian: sallatë (sq) f
• American Sign Language: Claw5@SideTrunkhigh-PalmUp-Claw5@SideTrunkhigh-PalmUp Claw5@InsideChesthigh-PalmUp-Claw5@InsideChesthigh-PalmUp
• Amharic: ሰላጣ (sälaṭa)
• Arabic: سَلَطَة‎ f (salaṭa)

  Moroccan Arabic: شلاضة‎ (šlāḍa, šalāḍa), سلطة‎ (salaṭa)

• Armenian: աղցան (hy) (ałcʿan), սալաթ (hy) (salatʿ)
• Asturian: ensalada f
• Azerbaijani: salat
• Belarusian: сала́т m (salát), сала́та f (saláta)
• Bengali: সালাদ (śalad)
• Breton: saladenn f
• Bulgarian: сала́та (bg) f (saláta)
• Burmese: သနပ် (my) (sa.nap)
• Catalan: amanida (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 沙律 (yue) (saa¹ leot^6-2)

  Mandarin: 沙拉 (zh) (shālā), 沙律 (zh) (shālǜ), 色拉 (zh) (sèlā), 涼拌 (zh) (liángbàn)

• Czech: salát (cs) m
• Danish: salat (da)
• Dutch: salade (nl)
• Esperanto: salato
• Estonian: salat
• Faroese: salat (fo) n
• Finnish: salaatti (fi)
• French: salade (fr) f
• Galician: ensalada (gl) f
• Georgian: სალათი (salati), სალათა (salata)
• German: Salat (de) m
• Greek: σαλάτα (el) f (saláta)

  Ancient: φυλλάς f (phullás), φυλλίς f (phullís)

• Greenlandic: salaatit
• Hebrew: סָלָט‎ (he) m (salát)
• Hindi: सलाद (hi) f (salād)
• Hungarian: saláta (hu)
• Icelandic: salat (is) n
• Ido: salado (io)
• Indonesian: salad (id)
• Italian: insalata (it) f

• Japanese: サラダ (ja) (sarada)
• Kazakh: салат (kk) (salat)
• Khmer: សាលាដ (km) (saalaat)
• Korean: 샐러드 (ko) (saelleodeu)
• Kyrgyz: салат (ky) (salat)
• Lao: ສະຫຼັດ (sa lat), ສະຫລັດ (sa lat), ສລັດ (sa lat), ຍຳ (nyam)
• Latin: morētum n
• Latvian: salāti m pl
• Lithuanian: salotos m
• Macedonian: сала́та f (saláta)
• Malay: salad
• Maori: mangamata, huamata
• Mongolian: шанцай (mn) (šantsaj), салат (salat)
• Norwegian: salat m
• Oromo: salaaxaa
• Pashto: سلاته‎ (ps) f (salātá)
• Persian: سالاد‎ (fa) (sâlâd)
• Plautdietsch: Zellot f
• Polish: sałatka (pl) f, surówka (pl) (of raw vegetables)
• Portuguese: salada (pt) f
• Romanian: salată (ro)
• Russian: сала́т (ru) m (salát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: салата f

  Roman: salata (sh) f

• Slovak: šalát (sk) m
• Slovene: solata (sl) f
• Spanish: ensalada (es) f
• Swahili: saladi (sw)
• Swedish: sallad (sv)
• Tagalog: ensalada
• Tajik: салат (tg) (salat)
• Thai: สลัด (th) (sà-làt)
• Turkish: salata (tr)
• Turkmen: salat
• Ukrainian: сала́т m (salát), сала́та f (saláta)
• Urdu: سلاد‎ f (salād)
• Uyghur: سالات‎ (salat)
• Uzbek: salat (uz)
• Welsh: addail m pl, salad (cy) m
• Yiddish: סאַלאַט‎ m (salat)

vegetable

• Finnish: salaatti (fi)

Anagrams

• Ladas, S.D. Ala., daals

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Etymology

From English salad, borrowed from French salade, borrowed from Northern Italian salada, salata, from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal (“salt”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa‧lad

Noun

salad

1. salad

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Spanish

Verb

salad

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of salar.