table salt

English

Noun

table salt (uncountable)

1. Sodium chloride, the salt most commonly used to season food at the table.

Usage notes

• Usually used to distinguish from other compounds called salts by chemists.

Translations

salt to season food

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 餐桌鹽／餐桌盐, 餐桌盐 (caan¹ zoek³ jim⁴)

  Mandarin: 食鹽／食盐 (zh) (shíyán), 食盐 (zh) (shíyán), 精鹽／精盐 (jīngyán), 精盐 (jīngyán)

• Danish: bordsalt n
• Dutch: tafelzout (nl) n
• Esperanto: tabla salo
• Estonian: keedusool, lauasool
• Finnish: ruokasuola (fi), pöytäsuola (fi), keittosuola (fi)
• French: sel de table (fr) m, sel (fr) m
• German: Kochsalz (de) n, Tafelsalz n, Speisesalz (de) n
• Irish: salann mín m
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• Japanese: 食塩 (ja) (しょくえん, shokuen)
• Korean: 소금 (ko) (sogeum)
• Manx: sollan meen m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bordsalt n

  Nynorsk: bordsalt n

• Polish: sól kuchenna f
• Portuguese: sal de cozinha (pt) m
• Russian: столова́я соль f (stolovája solʹ)
• Swedish: bordsalt (sv) n, bordssalt (sv) n, koksalt (sv) n
• Vietnamese: muối ăn (vi)