# salad
## English

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### Alternative forms

* sallet [16th–19th c.]

### Etymology

* PIE word
* *séh₂ls
From Middle English salade, from Old French salade, borrowed from Northern Italian salada, salata (compare insalata), from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal (“salt”). Vegetables were seasoned with brine or salty oil-and-vinegar dressings during Roman times.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: săʹləd IPA: /ˈsæləd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* (Southern US) IPA: /ˈsælɪd/
* (obsolete) IPA: /ˈsælɪt/
* Rhymes: -æləd

### Noun

salad (countable and uncountable, plural salads)
* A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
** c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:Lafeu. ’Twas a good lady, ’twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb. Clown. Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the salad, or rather, the herb of grace.
    chicken salad
    We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.
** Especially, such a mixture whose principal base is greens, most especially lettuce.
    romaine salad
    kale salad
* A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.
    sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment
* (idiomatic) Any varied blend or mixture.
** 2021 October 16, Gurvinder Singh, “Why Pakistan will fail”, in Guruwonder‎:Rebuffed by the Arabs and then the Iranians for trying to be part of them and their societies, Pakistan is just a hotchpotch salad of people supposedly bound together by the myth of Muslim 'Ummah'.

#### Hyponyms

* angel salad
* Bulgarian salad
* Caesar salad
* candle salad
* Caprese salad
* caprese salad
* chef salad
* chicken salad
* Chilean salad
* Chinese chicken salad
* Cobb salad
* congealed salad
* corn salad
* dandelion salad
* egg salad
* field salad
* frog-eye salad
* fruit salad
* garden salad
* Glasgow salad
* gorilla salad
* Greek salad
* Israeli salad
* jellied salad
* jello salad
* Jello salad
* jumping salad
* millionaire's salad
* mimosa salad
* molded salad
* Niçoise salad
* Olivier salad
* pasta salad
* Pittsburgh salad
* poke salad
* potato salad
* rainbow salad
* rocket salad
* Russian salad
* Serbian salad
* seven-layer salad
* shopska salad
* Snickers salad
* taco salad
* tomato salad
* tossed salad
* tuna salad
* Waldorf salad
* Watergate salad
* wedge salad
* word salad

#### Derived terms

* angry fruit salad
* cabbage salad
* Cæsar salad
* chef's salad
* chicken salad air
* combination salad
* composed salad
* dinner salad
* fiesta salad
* gelatine salad
* gelatin salad
* green salad
* ham salad
* jello salad
* jewel salad
* macaroni salad
* mac salad
* malfouf salad
* Moscow salad
* perfection salad
* poké salad
* salad bar
* salad bowl
* salad burnet
* salad cream
* salad days
* salad dodger
* salad-dodger
* salad dressing
* salad fork
* salad greens
* salading
* saladless
* saladlike
* salad-oil
* salad oil
* salad onion
* salad plate
* salad shaker
* salad shooter
* salad spinner
* salad spoon
* salad tossing
* salady
* salad year
* salad years
* seafoam salad
* side salad
* sopska salad
* southwestern salad
* southwest salad
* Stolichny salad
* toss salad
* toss someone's salad

#### Related terms

* taramosalata

#### Descendants

* → Scottish Gaelic: sailead
* → Welsh: salad

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Hall, Joseph Sargent (1942 March 2) “3. The Consonants”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 6, page 98.
* ↑ Grandgent, C. H. (1899) “From Franklin to Lowell”, in James W. Bright, editor, Proceedings of the Modern Language Association‎, volume 14, number 2, Modern Language Association of America, →DOI, page 238

### Anagrams

* Aldas, Ladas, S.D. Ala., daals

## Cebuano
### Etymology

From English salad, borrowed from French salade, borrowed from Northern Italian salada, salata, from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal (“salt”).

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: sa‧lad

### Noun

salad
* salad

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French salade (“salad”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /salad/

### Noun

salad
* salad

## Spanish
### Verb

salad
* second-person plural imperative of salar

## Welsh
### Etymology

From English salad, from French salade.

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /ˈsalad/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈsa(ː)lad/

### Noun

salad m (plural saladau, not mutable)
* salad

#### Derived terms

* salad ffrwythau (“fruit salad”)

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “salad”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies