salo

See also: Salo, saló, salò, Salò, ŝalo, Sâlo, sāļo, and Appendix:Variations of "salo"

English

Etymology

From Russian са́ло (sálo) or Ukrainian са́ло (sálo), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *sadlo.

Noun

salo (uncountable)

1. a type of fatback, or non-rendered underskin pig fat consumed in Central and Eastern Europe, usually seasoned
   • 2009, January 31, “Michael Schwirtz”, in Russia and Cuba Take Steps to Revive a Bond‎^[1]:

     […] Mr. Castro waxed nostalgic, recounting the time he and Soviet comrades sat around a campfire in the forest eating salo, the cured pig fat that is a staple chaser of Russian vodka.

Translations

non-rendered pig fat

• Arabic: سَالُو‎ m (sālū)
• Armenian: ճարպ (hy) (čarp), սալ (hy) (sal) (colloquial)
• Belarusian: са́ла n (sála)
• Bulgarian: слани́на (bg) f (slanína)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薩洛, 萨洛 (sàluò)

• Chuvash: сало (salo)
• Czech: sádlo (cs) n
• Dolgan: һыа (hıa)
• Eastern Mari: коя (koâ)
• Finnish: läski (fi), salo (fi)
• French: salo (fr) m
• Georgian: ქონი (koni), ძგიფი (ʒgipi), სალა (sala)
• German: Salo n
• Hebrew: סאלו‎ (salo)
• Hungarian: szalonna (hu)
• Japanese: サーロ (sāro)
• Kashubian: sadło n
• Korean: 살로 (sallo)
• Lithuanian: lašiniai pl

• Polish: sadło (pl) n, słonina (pl) f
• Portuguese: toicinho (pt) m, toucinho (pt) m, salo (pt) m
• Romanian: slănină (ro) f
• Russian: са́ло (ru) n (sálo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: са̏ло n

  Roman: sȁlo (sh) n

• Slovak: sadlo n
• Slovene: sálọ n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sadło n

  Upper Sorbian: sadło n

• Spanish: salo (es) m
• Turkish: yağ (tr), salo (tr)
• Tuvan: чаг (çag)
• Ukrainian: са́ло (uk) n (sálo)
• Uzbek: salo, moy (uz), yogʻ (uz)
• Vietnamese: mỡ muối (vi), mỡ (vi), mỡ chài (vi)
• Yakut: сыа (sıa)

See also

• Salo (food) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ASLO, LAOS, LOAs, Laos, Loas, also, loas, soal, sola

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.lo/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.lu/

Verb

salo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of salar

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Esperanto

Etymology

From Italian sale; Latin sāl; Spanish sal.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈsalo/
• Hyphenation: sa‧lo
• Rhymes: -alo

Noun

salo (accusative singular salon, plural saloj, accusative plural salojn)

1. salt

Derived terms

• kuirsalo (“cooking salt”)

Related terms

• sala
• sali

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑlo/, [ˈs̠ɑlo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Syllabification: sa‧lo

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *salo, probably borrowed from Baltic.

Noun

salo

1. a deep forest, wilderness
2. (archaic) a forested island

Declension

Inflection of salo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		salo	salot
genitive		salon	salojen
partitive		saloa	saloja
illative		saloon	saloihin
		singular	plural
nominative		salo	salot
accusative	nom.	salo	salot
	gen.	salon
genitive		salon	salojen
partitive		saloa	saloja
inessive		salossa	saloissa
elative		salosta	saloista
illative		saloon	saloihin
adessive		salolla	saloilla
ablative		salolta	saloilta
allative		salolle	saloille
essive		salona	saloina
translative		saloksi	saloiksi
instructive		—	saloin
abessive		salotta	saloitta
comitative		—	saloineen

Possessive forms of salo (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	saloni	salomme
2nd person	salosi	salonne
3rd person	salonsa

Compounds

• salokylä
• salomaa
• saloseutu

Etymology 2

From Slavic.

Noun

salo

1. salo (non-rendered underskin pig fat)

Declension

Inflection of salo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		salo	salot
genitive		salon	salojen
partitive		saloa	saloja
illative		saloon	saloihin
		singular	plural
nominative		salo	salot
accusative	nom.	salo	salot
	gen.	salon
genitive		salon	salojen
partitive		saloa	saloja
inessive		salossa	saloissa
elative		salosta	saloista
illative		saloon	saloihin
adessive		salolla	saloilla
ablative		salolta	saloilta
allative		salolle	saloille
essive		salona	saloina
translative		saloksi	saloiksi
instructive		—	saloin
abessive		salotta	saloitta
comitative		—	saloineen

Possessive forms of salo (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	saloni	salomme
2nd person	salosi	salonne
3rd person	salonsa

Anagrams

• Laos, olas, sola

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto salo, Latin sāl, Italian sale, Spanish sal.

Noun

salo (plural sali)

1. salt

Derived terms

• dessalizar (“to desalinate, desalinize”)
• salizar

 

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Italian

Verb

salo

1. first-person singular present indicative of salare

Anagrams

• Laos, sola

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Latin

Noun

salō

1. dative singular of salum
2. ablative singular of salum

References

• salo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• salo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• salo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• salo in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sadlo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sâlo/
• Hyphenation: sa‧lo

Noun

sȁlo n (Cyrillic spelling са̏ло)

1. lard
2. fat (specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy)

Declension

Declension of salo

	singular	plural
nominative	sȁlo	sala
genitive	sala	sȃlā
dative	salu	salima
accusative	salo	sala
vocative	salo	sala
locative	salu	salima
instrumental	salom	salima

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalo/, [ˈsa.lo]

Verb

salo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of salar.