# sale
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /seɪl/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪl
* Homophone: sail

### Etymology 1

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 *selh₁- (“to grab”).

#### Noun

sale (countable and uncountable, plural sales)
* An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.
    He celebrated after the sale of company.
* (Short for discount sale) The sale of goods at reduced prices.
    They are having a clearance sale: 50% off.
* 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

* bake sale
* bargain and sale
* bill of sale
* blowout sale
* boot sale
* bring-and-buy sale
* car boot sale
* Cinderella sale
* conquest sale
* contract of sale
* days sales outstanding
* distressed sale
* distress sale
* drive sale
* e-sales
* estate sale
* fire sale
* fire-sale
* first sale doctrine
* first-sale doctrine
* flash sale
* forced sale
* for sale
* garage sale
* goods and sales tax
* gross sales
* in the sales
* jumble sale
* net sales
* off-sale
* on sale
* plate sale
* point of sale
* roup sale
* rummage sale
* sale and leaseback
* sale-goer
* sale journal
* sale-leaseback
* sale of work
* sale on approval
* sale or return
* sale price
* sale-proof
* sales advisor
* sales assistant
* sales associate
* sales clerk
* sales floor
* sales force
* sales ledger
* salesman
* sales pitch
* sales profit
* sales rep
* sales representative
* sales resistance
* sales slip
* sales tax
* sales team
* sale yard
* scavenger sale
* seat sale
* short sale
* special order sale
* system sales
* tag sale
* up for sale
* wash sale
* white elephant sale
* white sale
* yard sale

##### Translations

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##### See also

* purchase

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

sale (plural sales)
* (obsolete) A hall.

### Anagrams

* ASLE, Ales, ELAS, Elsa, LAEs, LEAs, SEAL, Seal, Sela, aels, ales, lase, leas, seal, sela

## Afrikaans
### Noun

sale
* plural of saal (hall)

## Corsican
### Etymology

From Latin salem, accusative of sāl.

### Noun

sale ?
* salt

### References

* “sale” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sal/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: salle

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French sale, from Old French sale (“dull, dirty”), from Frankish *salu (“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)
* dirty
    Synonyms: crasseux, malpropre
    Antonyms: net, propre
    Hyponyms: dégoûtant, répugnant, sali, sordide, souillé, terni
* bad, unpleasant
    Le prof est capable de me fiche une sale note rien que parce qu’il m’a aperçue en ville le mercredi.The teacher can give me a bad grade just because he saw me in town on Wednesday.
* vile, despicable
    Synonyms: méprisable, vil
    Hyponyms: dégoûtant, répugnant, sordide
    Un sale type ― A vile man.

##### Derived terms

* argent sale
* être dans de sales draps
* guerre sale
* insalissable
* laver son linge sale en public
* sale comme un peigne
* salement
* saleté
* saligaud
* salir
* salissant
* salisson
* salissure

##### Related terms

* salopard
* salope
* saloper
* saloperie
* salopiaud

##### See also

* ordurier

### Etymology 2

From saler.

#### Verb

sale
* inflection of saler:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “sale” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
* “sale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsa.le/
* Rhymes: -ale
* Hyphenation: sà‧le

### Etymology 1

From Latin salem.

#### Noun

sale m (plural sali)
* salt, sal

##### Derived terms

* dissalare
* insalare
* salare
* salgemma
* saliera
* salifero
* salificare
* salume
* spargisale

##### Related terms

* insalata
* salamoia
* salatino
* salato
* salatura
* sale fino
* sale grosso
* salina
* salinità
* salino
* salmarino, sale marino
* salmastro
* salnitro
* salsedine
* salsiccia

#### Further reading

* sale in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

sale f pl
* plural of sala

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

sale
* third-person singular present indicative of salire

### Anagrams

* Ales, Elsa, elsa, lesa

## Latin
### Noun

sale
* 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
* “sale”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

## 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 or f
* (Jersey, Guernsey) dirty

#### Derived terms

* sale maladie (“venereal disease”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* sadle

### Etymology

From Old Norse sǫðla, from Proto-Germanic *sadulōną.

### Verb

sale (present tense saler, past tense salte or salet, past participle salt or salet, present participle salende, imperative sal)
* (transitive) to saddle

### References

* “sale” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* Asle, ales, Elsa, esla, lase, leas, -elsa, sela, slae

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* sala (a infinitive)

### Etymology

From Old Norse sǫðla, from Proto-Germanic *sadulōną.

### Verb

sale (present tense salar, past tense sala, past participle sala, passive infinitive salast, present participle salande, imperative sale/sal)
* (transitive) to saddle

### References

* “sale” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* Asle, elas, Elsa, lase, lesa

## Old French
### Etymology

From Frankish *sali (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”).

### Noun

sale oblique singular, f (oblique plural sales, nominative singular sale, nominative plural sales)
* room (subsection of a building)
** c. 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(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Descendants

* French : salle
* Norman: salle

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsa.le/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ale
* Hyphenation: sa‧le

### Pronoun

sale
* inflection of său:
** genitive/dative feminine singular
** feminine/neuter plural

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

sale (Cyrillic spelling сале)
* inflection of sala:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsale/ [ˈsa.le]
* Rhymes: -ale
* Syllabification: sa‧le

### Etymology 1

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

#### Interjection

sale
* (Mexico) ok
    Synonyms: (Argentina) dale, vale

##### Derived terms

* sale y vale

#### Verb

sale
* third-person singular present indicative of salir

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

sale
* inflection of salar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* sale | Diccionario de americanismos | ASALE

## Venetan
### Alternative forms

* sal

### Etymology

From Latin sal, salem.

### Noun

sale f
* salt (sodium chloride, non-chemical usage)

### Noun

sale m (plural sali)
* (chemistry) salt