sale

See also: Sale, salé, Salé, sāle, säle, Säle, and șale

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /seɪl/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪl
• Homophone: sail

Etymology 1

From Middle English sale, sal, from Old English sæl ‎(“room, hall, castle”), from Proto-Germanic *salą ‎(“house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sol-, *sel- ‎(“home, dwelling, village”). Cognate with West Frisian seal, Dutch zaal, German Saal, Swedish sal, Icelandic salur, Lithuanian sala ‎(“village”). Related also to salon, saloon.

Noun

sale ‎(plural sales)

1. (obsolete) A hall.

Etymology 2

From Middle English sale, from Old English sala ‎(“act of selling, sale”), from Old Norse sala ‎(“sale”), from Proto-Germanic *salō ‎(“delivery”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- ‎(“to grab”).

Noun

sale ‎(plural sales)

1. An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.

   He celebrated after the sale of company.‎

2. The sale of goods at reduced prices.

   They are having a clearance sale: 50% off.‎

3. The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.

Derived terms

terms derived from sale (noun)

for sale on sale

salesman sales pitch

Troponyms

• (selling of goods at reduced prices): cut-rate sale, sales event
• (act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder): auction, public sale

Translations

exchange of goods or services for currency or credit

• Arabic: بَيْع m ‎(bayʿ)
• Asturian: venta f
• Catalan: venda (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銷售 (zh), 销售 (zh) ‎(xiāoshòu)

• Czech: prodej (cs) m
• Dutch: verkoop (nl)
• Esperanto: vendo, vendado
• Finnish: myynti (fi)
• French: vente (fr) f
• Galician: venda f
• Georgian: გაყიდვა ‎(gaq̇idva)
• German: Verkauf (de) m
• Greek: πώληση (el) f ‎(pólisi)
• Hebrew: מכירה (he) f ‎(mekhirá)
• Hungarian: eladás (hu), árusítás (hu)
• Icelandic: sala f
• Interlingua: vendita
• Italian: vendita (it) f
• Japanese: 販売 (ja) ‎(はんばい, hambai)
• Korean: 판매 (ko) ‎(panmae)
• Kurdish: firotin (ku) f

• Latgalian: puordūšona f, puordavums m
• Latin: venum n, venditio f
• Latvian: pārdošana f
• Lithuanian: pardavimas m
• Norman: vente f (Jersey, Guernsey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: salg n

• Polish: sprzedaż (pl) f
• Portuguese: venda (pt) f
• Quechua: rantikuy
• Romanian: vânzare (ro) f, vindere (ro) f
• Russian: прода́жа (ru) f ‎(prodáža)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: продаја f

  Roman: prodaja (sh) f

• Slovak: predaj m
• Spanish: venta (es) f
• Swedish: försäljning (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagbili (tl)
• Telugu: అమ్మకము (te) ‎(ammakamu)
• Vietnamese: sự bán (vi)
• Walloon: vindaedje (wa) m, vinte (wa) f
• Yiddish: פֿאַרקויף m ‎(farkoyf)

sale of goods at reduced prices

• Arabic: تخفيض m sg ‎(taḵfīḍ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拍賣 (zh), 拍卖 (zh) ‎(pāimài)

• Czech: výprodej m
• Dutch: uitverkoop (nl) m, solden (nl) m
• Finnish: alennusmyynti (fi), ale (fi)
• French: soldes (fr), liquidation (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Schlussverkauf (de) m, Ausverkauf m
• Greek: έκπτωση (el) f ‎(ékptosi)
• Hebrew: מבצע (he) m ‎(mivtsá)
• Hungarian: akció (hu), kiárusítás (hu)
• Icelandic: útsala f
• Interlingua: liquidation
• Italian: saldo (it) m, liquidazione (it) f, svendita (it) f
• Japanese: 安売り ‎(yasuuri), 特売 ‎(tokubai), セール ‎(sēru), バーゲンセール ‎(bāgensēru)

• Kurdish: tenzîlat (ku) f
• Latgalian: izpuordūšona f, izpuordavums m
• Latin: venum n, venditio f, venditio ternimans f, venum ternimans n, venum terminans n, venditio terminans f
• Latvian: izpārdošana f
• Lithuanian: išpardavimas m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: salg n

• Polish: wyprzedaż (pl) f
• Portuguese: liquidação (pt) f
• Russian: распрода́жа (ru) f ‎(rasprodáža), сейл (ru) m ‎(sɛjl) / сэйл (ru) m ‎(sɛjl) (colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: распродаја f

  Roman: rasprodaja (sh) f

• Spanish: liquidación (es) f, rebaja (es) f
• Swedish: rea (sv) c, realisation (sv) c

act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder

• Arabic: مُزَايَدَة f ‎(muzāyada)
• Dutch: veiling (nl) f, veilingverkoop m, verkoop (nl) m
• Finnish: huutokauppa (fi)
• French: vente (fr) f
• German: Auktion (de) f
• Interlingua: auction
• Kurdish: mezat (ku) f

• Latgalian: vairasūleišona f, torgi m pl
• Latin: venum liberum n, venum, venditio libera f, venditio f
• Latvian: ūtrupe f, izpārdošana f
• Norman: vente f (Jersey, Guernsey)
• Norwegian: auksjon m
• Portuguese: leilão (pt) m
• Russian: аукцио́н (ru) m ‎(aukción), торги́ (ru) m pl ‎(torgí)
• Swedish: auktion (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} أُوكَازيُون, ^{(please verify)} تَصْرِيف ‎(taṣrīf), ^{(please verify)} مَبِيع ‎(mabīʿ)
• Basque: ^{(please verify)} salmenta, ^{(please verify)} likidazio
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 出售
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} venditio, ^{(please verify)} hasta
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} pardavimas, ^{(please verify)} aukcionas, ^{(please verify)} varžytynės

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} vânzare f
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} mnada, ^{(please verify)} lilamu, ^{(please verify)} uguzi
• Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} pagbibili; ^{(please verify)} pinagbilhan
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} sel

See also

• purchase

Anagrams

• ales, ELAS, Elsa, lase, leas, seal, SEAL

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French

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [sal]
• Homophone: salle

Etymology 1

From Middle French, from Old French sale ‎(“dull, dirty”), from Old Frankish *salo ‎(“dull, dirty grey”), from Proto-Germanic *salwaz ‎(“dusky, dark, muddy”), from Proto-Indo-European *salw-, *sal- ‎(“dirt, dirty”). Cognate with Old High German salo ‎(“dull, dirty grey”), Old English salu ‎(“dark, dusky”), Old Norse sǫlr ‎(“yellowish”). More at sallow.

Adjective

sale m, f ‎(plural sales)

1. dirty

Derived terms

Terms derived from sale

• insalissable
• sale comme un peigne
• salement
• saleté

• saligaud
• salir
• salissant

• salisson
• salissure
• saloperie

Related terms

• salopard
• salope

Etymology 2

From saler

Verb

sale

1. first-person singular present indicative of saler
2. third-person singular present indicative of saler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of saler
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of saler
5. second-person singular imperative of saler

External links

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

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsale/, [ˈsaː.le]
• Hyphenation: sà‧le

Etymology 1

From Latin sāl, salem ‎(“salt”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

Noun

sale m ‎(plural sali)

1. salt, sal

Derived terms

Terms derived from sale

• dissalare
• salare
• salgemma

• saliera
• salifero
• salificare

• salino
• spargisale

Related terms

Related terms

• salame
• salatino
• salato
• salatura

• salina
• salinità
• salmarino / sale marino
• salmastro

• salnitro
• salsedine
• salsiccia
• salume

Etymology 2

Noun

sale f pl

1. plural of sala

Verb

sale

1. third-person singular present indicative of salire

Anagrams

• elsa
• lesa

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Latin

Noun

sale

1. ablative singular of sāl

References

• sale in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sale in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• sale in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia^[1]
• sale in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French sale ‎(“dull, dirty”), from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *salwaz ‎(“dusky, dark, muddy”), from Proto-Indo-European *salw-, *sal- ‎(“dirt, dirty”).

Adjective

sale m, f

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) dirty

Derived terms

• sale maladie ‎(“venereal disease”)

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Norwegian

Verb

sale

1. To saddle (attach a saddle to a horse)

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Old French

Noun

sale f ‎(oblique plural sales, nominative singular sale, nominative plural sales)

1. room (subsection of a building)
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     […] que la soe amie
     Est la plus bele de la sale[.]

     - […] The his wife

     Is the most beautiful in the room

Descendants

• French : salle
• Norman: salle

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Spanish

Etymology

For the interjection, sale is part of a former rhyming phrase, sale y vale, see valer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.le/

Interjection

sale

1. (Mexico) ok

Synonyms

• dale (Argentina)
• vale

Verb

sale

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of salir.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of salir.

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Venetian

Alternative forms

• sal

Noun

Wikipedia ^vec

sale f

1. salt (sodium chloride, non-chemical usage)

sale m (plural sali)

1. (chemistry) salt