salami

See also: Salami and sālāmi

English

Salami

Etymology

From Italian salami (plural of salame (“salami”), from sale (“salt”), from Latin sal.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [səˈlɑːmɪ]

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːmi

Noun

salami (countable and uncountable, plural salamis)

1. A large cured meat sausage of Italian origin, served in slices.
2. (baseball) A grand slam.
3. (slang) A penis.
   • 2001, Bob Drews, Sandman (page 101)

     To this day Katie thought wistfully of the night in his apartment when his salami had split her loins sending her into a state of sexual ecstasy unmatched in human history.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• salami attack
• salami publication
• salami publishing

• salami tactics
• salami technique
• winter salami

Translations

sausage

• Afrikaans: salami
• Albanian: sallam (sq) f
• Amharic: ሳላሚ f (salami)
• Arabic: سَلَامِي‎‎ m (salāmī)
• Armenian: սալյամի (salyami)
• Belarusian: салямі f (saljámi)
• Bulgarian: салам (bg) m (salám)
• Burmese: ဆလာမီ (my) (hca.lami)
• Catalan: salami m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薩拉米, 萨拉米 (sàlāmǐ), 莎樂美, 莎乐美 (shālèměi)

• Czech: salám (cs) m
• Danish: salami c
• Finnish: salami (fi)
• French: salami (fr) m
• Galician: salame (gl) m
• Georgian: სალამი (salami)
• German: Salami (de) f
• Greek: σαλάμι (el) m (salámi)
• Hebrew: סלמי‎‎ (he)
• Hindi: सलामी (hi) (salāmī)
• Hungarian: szalámi (hu)
• Italian: salame (it) m
• Japanese: サラミ (sarami)

• Korean: 살라미 (sallami)
• Kyrgyz: салями (salyami)
• Latvian: salami f
• Lithuanian: saliamis f
• Macedonian: салама f (saláma)
• Marathi: सलामी (salāmī)
• Polish: salami (pl)
• Portuguese: salame (pt) m
• Romanian: salam (ro) n
• Russian: саля́ми (ru) f (saljámi)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: салама f

  Roman: salama (sh) f

• Spanish: salami m
• Swedish: salami (sv) c
• Tagalog: salami
• Turkish: salam (tr)
• Turkmen: salam
• Ukrainian: салямі (uk) f (saljámi)
• Urdu: سلامی‎‎ (salāmī)
• Uzbek: salam (uz)
• Vietnamese: xúc xích ý

grand slam — see grand slam

penis — see penis

See also

• Wikipedia article on salami

Anagrams

• Islaam, ilamas, lamias

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian salami.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /səˈla.mi/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /saˈla.mi/

Noun

salami m (plural salamis)

1. salami

Further reading

• “salami” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

salami m (plural salami's)

1. salami

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑlɑmi/
• Hyphenation: sa‧la‧mi

Noun

salami

1. salami

Declension

Inflection of salami (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		salami	salamit
genitive		salamin	salamien
partitive		salamia	salameja
illative		salamiin	salameihin
		singular	plural
nominative		salami	salamit
accusative	nom.	salami	salamit
	gen.	salamin
genitive		salamin	salamien
partitive		salamia	salameja
inessive		salamissa	salameissa
elative		salamista	salameista
illative		salamiin	salameihin
adessive		salamilla	salameilla
ablative		salamilta	salameilta
allative		salamille	salameille
essive		salamina	salameina
translative		salamiksi	salameiksi
instructive		—	salamein
abessive		salamitta	salameitta
comitative		—	salameineen

Anagrams

• limsaa, salmia, sialma

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.la.mi/

• audio

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Noun

salami m (plural salamis)

1. salami

Further reading

• “salami” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• lamais, mailas, Malais, malais

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Italian

Noun

salami m

1. plural of salame

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Latvian

Noun

salami m (invariable)

1. salami

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

salami m (definite singular salamien, indefinite plural salamier, definite plural salamiene)

1. salami

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

salami m (definite singular salamien, indefinite plural salamiar, definite plural salamiane)

1. salami

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Polish

Noun

salami n (indeclinable)

1. salami

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian salami.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈlami/

Noun

salami m (plural salamis)

1. salami

Further reading

• “salami” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Tagalog

Noun

salami

1. salami