sale

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

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /seɪl/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪl
• Homophone: sail

Etymology 1

From Middle English sale, sal, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *salą (“house, hall”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English sale, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English sala (“act of selling, sale”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse sala (“sale”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *salō (“delivery”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.

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

Derived terms

terms derived from sale (noun)

• for sale
• on sale

• salesman
• sales pitch

Translations

exchange of goods or services for currency or credit

• Albanian: shitje (sq) f
• Arabic: بَيْع m (bayʕ)

  Moroccan Arabic: بْيع m (biəʿ)

• Armenian: վաճառք (hy) (vačaṙkʻ)
• Asturian: venta f
• Azerbaijani: satış
• Belarusian: про́даж m (pródaž)
• Bengali: বিক্রয় (bikroẏ)
• Bulgarian: прода́жба (bg) f (prodážba)
• Catalan: venda (ca) f
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵣⵏⵣⵉ m (azənzi)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: prodej (cs) m
• Danish: salg (da) n
• Dutch: verkoop (nl)
• Esperanto: vendo, vendado
• Estonian: müük
• Finnish: myynti (fi)
• French: vente (fr) f
• Galician: venda f
• Georgian: გაყიდვა (gaq̇idva)
• German: Verkauf (de) m
• Greek: πώληση (el) f (pólisi)

  Ancient: πρᾶσις f (prâsis), πώλησις f (pṓlēsis)

• Hebrew: מכירה (he) f (mekhirá)
• Hindi: विक्रय (hi) m (vikray), बिक्री (hi) f (bikrī)
• Hungarian: eladás (hu), árusítás (hu)
• Icelandic: sala (is) f
• Interlingua: vendita
• Italian: vendita (it) f
• Japanese: 販売 (ja) (はんばい, hambai)
• Kazakh: сату (kk) (satu)
• Korean: 판매 (ko) (panmae)
• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: сатуу (ky) (satuu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lao: ການຂາຍ (kān khāi)
• Latgalian: puordūšona f, puordavums m
• Latin: venum n, venditio f
• Latvian: pārdošana f
• Lithuanian: pardavimas m
• Macedonian: продажба f (prodažba)
• Malay: jualan, penjualan
• Mongolian: борлуулалт (borluulalt), худалдаа (mn) (xudaldaa)
• Norman: vente f (Jersey, Guernsey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: salg n

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

  Cyrillic: продаја f

  Roman: prodaja (sh) f

• Slovak: predaj m
• Slovene: prodaja f
• Spanish: venta (es) f
• Swedish: försäljning (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagbili (tl)
• Tajik: фурӯш (furüš)
• Tashelhit: ⴰⵣⵏⵣⵉ m (azənzi)
• Telugu: అమ్మకము (te) (ammakamu)
• Thai: การขาย (th) (gaan-kǎai)
• Turkish: satış (tr)
• Turkmen: satuw
• Ukrainian: про́даж m (pródaž), спро́даж m (spródaž)
• Uzbek: sotish
• 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)
• Belarusian: распро́даж m (raspródaž)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: výprodej m
• Dutch: uitverkoop (nl) m, solden (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: alennusmyynti (fi), ale (fi)
• French: soldes (fr), liquidation (fr)
• Georgian: აქცია (akcia)
• German: Schlussverkauf (de) m, Ausverkauf (de) 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kurdish:
• 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
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: розпро́даж m (rozpródaž)
• 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:
• Latgalian: vairasūleišona f, torgi m pl
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} أُوكَازيُون, ^{(please verify)} تَصْرِيف (taṣrīf), ^{(please verify)} مَبِيع (mabīʕ)
• Basque: ^{(please verify)} salmenta, ^{(please verify)} likidazio
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} venditio, ^{(please verify)} hasta (la)
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} pardavimas, ^{(please verify)} aukcionas, ^{(please verify)} varžytynės
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 出售 (zh) (chūshòu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} vânzare (ro) f
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} mnada (sw), ^{(please verify)} lilamu, ^{(please verify)} uguzi
• Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} pagbibili; ^{(please verify)} pinagbilhan
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} sel (vo)

See also

• purchase

Anagrams

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

---

Afrikaans

Noun

sale

1. plural of saal (hall)

---

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sal/

• audio

  (file)

• 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

• 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. third-person singular present subjunctive of saler
5. second-person singular imperative of saler

Further reading

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

---

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

• dissalare
• salgemma
• saliera
• salifero
• salificare
• salino
• spargisale

 

Related terms

• insalare
• insalata
• salame
• salamoia
• salare
• salatino
• salato
• salatura
• sale fino
• sale grosso
• salina
• salinità
• salmarino / sale marino
• salmastro
• salnitro
• salsedine
• salsiccia
• salume

 

Etymology 2

Noun

sale f pl

1. plural of sala

Etymology 3

Verb

sale

1. third-person singular present indicative of salire

Anagrams

• elsa
• lesa

---

Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) sale

1. ablative singular of sāl

References

• “sale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, 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

---

Norman

Etymology

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

Adjective

sale m or f

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) dirty

Derived terms

• sale maladie (“venereal disease”)

---

Norwegian

Verb

sale

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

---

Old French

Noun

sale oblique singular, 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

---

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsale/ [ˈsa.le]

Interjection

sale

1. (Mexico) ok

Synonyms

• dale (Argentina)
• vale

Derived terms

• sale y 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.

---

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

---

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From , older form of sêlich, from , from , from . Compare , , Old Norse sæll, Norwegian sæl.

Adjective

1. Blessed, saved.