# gale
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡeɪl/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪl
* Homophone: Gail

### Etymology 1

From Middle English galen, from Old English galan (“to sing, enchant, call, cry, scream; sing charms, practice incantation”), from Proto-Germanic *galaną (“to roop, sing, charm”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shout, scream, charm away”). Cognate with Danish gale (“to crow”), Swedish gala (“to crow”), Icelandic gala (“to sing, chant, crow”), Dutch galm (“echo, sound, noise”). Related to yell.

#### Verb

gale (third-person singular simple present gales, present participle galing, simple past galed or gole, past participle galed or galen)
* (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To cry; groan; croak.
* (intransitive, of a person, now chiefly dialectal) To talk.
* (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To sing; utter with musical modulations.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English gale (“a wind, breeze”), possibly from Old English galan, possibly an unknown North Germanic origin, related to Icelandic gola (“a breeze”), Danish gal (“furious, mad”), both from Old Norse gala (“to sing”), and thus ultimately related to the above word (etymology 1).

#### Noun

gale (plural gales)
* (meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
    It's blowing a gale outside.
    Many parts of the boat were damaged in the gale.
** 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xii:
    With my mother's permission and blessings, I set off exultantly for Bombay, leaving my wife with a baby of a few months. But on arrival there, friends told my brother that the Indian Ocean was rough in June and July, and as this was my first voyage, I should not be allowed to sail until November. Someone also reported that a steamer had just been sunk in a gale. This made my brother uneasy, and he refused to take the risk of allowing me to sail immediately.
* An outburst, especially of laughter.
    a gale of laughter
** 1972, International Association of Seed Crushers, Congress [proceedings]:The slightest hint of smugness would have had the nation leaning over our shoulders to blow out the birthday candles with a gale of reproach and disapproval.
* (literary, archaic) A light breeze.
** c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:A little gale will soon disperse that cloud.
** 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odours fanned / From their soft wings.

##### Coordinate terms

* (meteorology): breeze, hurricane, storm

##### Derived terms

* bang like a dunny door in a gale
* gale force
* galelike
* galeproof
* near gale
* nightingale
* Schumpeter's gale
* severe gale
* strong gale
* whole gale

##### Translations

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##### See also

* Beaufort scale

#### Verb

gale (third-person singular simple present gales, present participle galing, simple past and past participle galed)
* (nautical) To sail, or sail fast.

### Etymology 3

From Middle English gaile, gawl, gawwyl, gaȝel, gagel, from Old English gagel, gagelle, gagille, gagolle (“gale; sweet gale”), from Proto-Germanic *gagulaz (“gale; sweet-willow”). Cognate with Scots gaul, gall (“bog-myrtle”), Dutch gagel (“wild myrtle”), German Gagel (“myrtle-bush”), Icelandic gaglviður (“sweet-gale; myrtle”).

#### Noun

gale
* A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.

##### Translations
### Etymology 4

From Middle English gavel (“rent; tribute”), from Old English gafol.

#### Noun

gale (plural gales)
* (archaic) A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.
    Gale day - the day on which rent or interest is due.

### References

* ↑ Etymology of gale
* “gale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Gael, Lega, egal, geal, lage, leag

## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡaˈle/ [ɡʌˈlɛ]
* Hyphenation: ga‧le

### Noun

galé f
* corner

#### Declension

absolutive
galé
predicative
galé
subjective
galé
genitive
galé
Postpositioned forms
l-case
galél
k-case
galék
t-case
galét
h-case
galéh :

### References

* E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “gale”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

## Awtuw
### Noun

gale
* fish
    Nan gale tek-nak-ey po.We've been catching fish.

### References

* Harry Feldman. A Grammar of Awtuw. (Pacific Linguistics: Series B, 94.) (1986)

## Basque
### Noun

gale
* eagerness

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡaːlə/, [ˈɡ̊æːlə]

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse gala (“to sing, crow, chant”), from Proto-Germanic *galaną, cognate with Norwegian gale, Swedish gala, English gale.

#### Verb

gale (past tense galede, or (archaic) gol, past participle galet)
* to crow (mostly of the sound of the cock)
* to scream

##### Conjugation

activepassive
present
galer
gales
past
galede or (archaic) gol
infinitive
gale
gales
imperative
gal
participle
present
galende
past
galet (auxiliary verb have)
gerund
galen :

##### References

* “gale” in Den Danske Ordbog

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

gale
* definite singular of gal
* plural of gal

## French
### Etymology

Variant of galle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡal/
* Audio (Paris):(file)

### Noun

gale f (plural gales)
* scabies; mange

#### Derived terms

* galeux

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* égal, Gaël, gela

## Galician
### Verb

gale
* inflection of galar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Noun

gale f
* plural of gala

### Anagrams

* Gela, Lega, gela, lega

## North Moluccan Malay
### Alternative forms

* bagale
* gali

### Etymology

From Malay gali, from earlier kali, from Proto-Malayic *kali, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kali, from Proto-Austronesian *kalih.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡalɛ/
* Hyphenation: ga‧le

### Verb

gale
* (transitive) to dig

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse gala.

#### Verb

gale (imperative gal, present tense galer, simple past gol or galte, past participle galt)
* to make a sound characteristic of a rooster; to crow

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

gale
* definite singular of gal
* plural of gal

### References

* “gale” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

gale (present tense gjel, past tense gol, supine gale, past participle galen, present participle galande, imperative gal)
* Alternative form of gala

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* galent

#### Adjective

gale
* neuter singular of galen

### Anagrams

* alge, egal, egla, lage, lega

## Old English
### Verb

gale
* first-person singular present indicative of galan

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡa.lɛ/
* Rhymes: -alɛ
* Syllabification: ga‧le
* Homophones: Gale, galę

### Noun

gale
* dative/locative singular of gała

### Noun

gale
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of gala

## Portuguese
### Verb

gale
* inflection of galar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Swedish
### Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from gull.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡaːlɛ/

### Noun

gale c
* (colloquial, Öckerö Municipality) Synonym of trut (“large gull”)

### References

* Erik Magnusson Petzell (2018 March 1) “Gale/galle”, in Dialektbloggen‎ (in Swedish), Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore

## Turkish
### Etymology 1

Unknown

#### Noun

gale (definite accusative galeyi, plural galeler)
* (Antalya) Synonym of sincap (“squirrel”)

##### References

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gale¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1633

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

gale (definite accusative galeyi, plural galeler)
* (dialect) Alternative form of kale

#### References

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gale²”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1633

### Etymology 3

From Ottoman Turkish غاله (gale), from French galée.

#### Noun

gale (definite accusative galeyi, plural galeler)
* (printing) galley

#### References

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gale⁶”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1633
* Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN