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)

  Moroccan Arabic: بْيع‏‎ m (biəʿ)

• Asturian: venta f
• Catalan: venda (ca) f
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵣⵏⵣⵉ m (azənzi)
• 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)
• Tashelhit: ⴰⵣⵏⵣⵉ m (azənzi)
• 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
• Vietnamese: sự hạ giá

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 Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

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

• 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

• ELAS, Elsa, LAEs, SEAL, Seal, Sela, ales, lase, leas, seal

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French

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [sal]
• Homophone: salle

Etymology 1

From Middle French sale, from Old French sale (“dull, dirty”), from 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 (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

Further reading

• “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
• salgemma
• saliera

• salifero
• salificare

• salino
• spargisale

Related terms

Related terms

• insalare
• insalata
• salame
• salamoia
• salare
• 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 and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sale” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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

Etymology

From Latin sal, salem.

Noun

sale f

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

sale m (plural sali)

1. (chemistry) salt