salami

See also: Salami, sālāmi, and šálami

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

• salami attack
• salami publication
• salami publishing
• salami-slice
• salami slicing
• 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)
• Azerbaijani: salyami
• Belarusian: саля́мі f (saljámi)
• Bulgarian: сала́м (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)

• Cornish: salami m
• Czech: salám (cs) m
• Danish: salami c
• Esperanto: salamo
• Finnish: salami (fi)
• French: salami (fr) m
• Galician: salame (gl) m
• Georgian: სალამი (salami)
• German: Salami (de) f
• Greek: σαλάμι (el) n (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: сала́ма f (saláma)
• Marathi: सलामी (salāmī)
• Piedmontese: salam m
• 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: саля́мі (uk) f (saljámi)
• Urdu: سلامی‎ (salāmī)
• Uzbek: salam (uz), salyami
• Vietnamese: xúc xích ý
• Yiddish: סאַלאַמי‎ m (salami)

grand slam — see grand slam

penis — see penis

See also

• Wikipedia article on salami

Anagrams

• Islaam, alisma, 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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Cebuano

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa‧la‧mi

Noun

salami

1. a salami

Anagrams

• lamasi, Simala

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Cornish

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [saˈlaːmi]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [zəˈlæːmi]

Noun

salami m (plural salamis)

1. salami

References

• Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
• 2018, Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (2018 edition, p.163)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

salami m (plural salami's)

1. salami

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Finnish

Etymology

From Italian salami.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑlɑmi/, [ˈs̠ɑlɑmi]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑmi
• Syllabification^(key): 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

Possessive forms of salami (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	salamini	salamimme
2nd person	salamisi	salaminne
3rd person	salaminsa

Anagrams

• lamasi, limsaa, maalis, 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

Derived terms

• tactique du salami

Further reading

• “salami”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• lamais, mailas, Malais, malais

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Italian

Noun

salami m

1. plural of salame

Anagrams

• Smaila, slamai

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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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈla.mi/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ami
• Syllabification: sa‧la‧mi

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian salami.

Noun

salami n (indeclinable)

1. salami

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

salami

1. instrumental plural of sala

Further reading

• salami in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• salami in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian salami.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈlami/, [saˈla.mi]

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

Etymology

Borrowed from English salami.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa‧la‧mi
• IPA^(key): /saˈlami/, [sɐˈla.mɪ]

Noun

salami

1. salami