# salt
## English
### Etymology 1

* PIE word
* *séh₂ls
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”). Doublet of sal, ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) enPR: sŏlt, sôlt, IPA: /sɒlt/, /sɔːlt/
** Audio (UK); /sɔːlt/:(file)
** Audio (UK); /sɔːlt/:(file)
* (US) enPR: sôlt, IPA: /sɔlt/
** (cot–caught merger) enPR: sält, IPA: /sɑlt/, [sɑɫt], [sɑɫʔ]
*** Audio (US, cot-caught merger):(file)
* (New Zealand) enPR: sŏlt, IPA: /sɔlt/, [sɔɯ̯t]
* Rhymes: -ɒlt, -ɔːlt

#### Noun

salt (countable and uncountable, plural salts)
* A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
** 1430, Thomas Austin, editor, Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 (Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91), volume 1, London: Routledge; N. Trübner & Co., published 1888, →OCLC, page 11:Take gode almaunde mylke y-draw wyth wyn, an let hem boyle to-gederys, an caste þer-to Safroun an Salt; […]Take good almond milk made with wine, and let it boil together, and add thereto Saffron and Salt; […]
** 1880, Arthur Herbert Church, Food: Some Account of Its Sources, Constituents and Uses‎, London: Chapman and Hall, page 24:Common salt, chloride of sodium, appears to be essential to the life of the higher animals.
** 2013, Bear Grylls, True Grit: the Epic True Stories of Heroism and Survival That Have Shaped My Life, →ISBN, page 9:Nando was pierced with grief, but he didn't allow himself to cry. Tears, he knew, would cost his body salt. Without salt, you die.
* (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
* (uncommon, countable) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
* (slang, countable) A sailor (also old salt).
** 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter:Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts.
** 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 1”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook.
* (cryptography) A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult.
* A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
* (obsolete, uncountable) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
** c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen […] we have some salt of our youth in us.
* (obsolete, uncountable) Piquancy; wit; sense.
    Attic salt
* (obsolete, countable) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
** 1664 September 19 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “September 9th, 1664”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume IV, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1894, →OCLC:I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts.
* (historical, in the plural) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
* (figurative, uncountable) Skepticism and common sense.
    Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.
* (Internet slang, uncountable) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
    There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.
* (UK, historical, uncountable) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.

##### Synonyms

* sal (obsolete)

##### Derived terms

* add salt to injury
* antisalt
* besalted
* bisalt
* black salt
* blacksalter
* bread and salt
* cerebral salt-wasting syndrome
* desalt
* hydrosalt
* lay salt on someone's tail
* nonsalt
* oversalt
* oxysalt
* pepper and salt
* persalt
* polysalt
* protosalt
* resalt
* salt and chilli chips
* salt and pepper chips
* saltbox
* saltbush
* saltcat
* salt cave
* salt coffee
* saltery
* saltfish
* saltfoot
* Saltford
* saltfree
* salt-free
* saltgrass
* saltie
* saltine
* saltish
* saltless
* saltlike
* saltly
* saltmaker
* saltmaking
* salt marsh elder
* saltmouth
* salt-myrtle
* salt myrtle
* salt of wisdom
* saltproof
* salt stick
* salt water aspiration syndrome
* saltweed
* saltwork
* saltworker
* saltworks
* saltwort
* salty
* sesquisalt
* subsalt
* sulfosalt
* sulphosalt
* supersalt
* take bread and salt
* above the salt
* acid of salt
* amphid salt
* Attic salt
* baker's salt
* bath salt
* bay salt
* below the salt
* bile salt
* bronzing salt
* butter salt
* cat-salt
* celery salt
* chicken salt
* common salt
* covenant of salt
* diazonium salt
* dishwasher salt
* double salt
* dry-salt
* Epsom salt(s)
* essential salt
* flake salt
* Frémy's salt
* fruit salt
* garlic salt
* Glaser's salt
* Glauber's salt
* Great Salt Lake
* green salt
* green salt of Magnus
* hair-salt
* hair salt
* hartshorn salt
* hei hei salt
* Himalayan salt
* horse salt
* inner salt
* koshering salt
* kosher salt
* Magnus' green salt
* Meerwein's salt
* microcosmic salt
* mineral salt
* mixed salt
* Monsel's salt
* not worth salt
* organic salt
* pepper-and-salt
* pinch of salt
* pink salt
* please pass the salt
* polychrest salt
* pound salt
* pre-salt layer
* prunella salt
* put salt on someone's tail
* road salt
* Rochelle salt
* rock salt
* rub salt in someone's wounds
* rub salt in the wound
* salt acid
* salt and pepper
* salt-and-pepper
* salt beef
* salt bottom
* salt box
* salt bridge
* salt cake
* salt cedar
* salt-cellar
* saltcellar
* salt chuck
* salt clay
* salt cod
* Salt Creek
* salt dome
* salt dough
* salt-effect distillation
* salt flat
* salt garden
* salt glacier
* salt gland
* salt glaze
* salt grass
* salt-green
* salt hay
* salt horse
* salt in the wound
* salt junk
* salt lake → Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County
* salt lick
* salt line
* salt marsh
* salt-marsh caterpillar
* salt marsh hay
* salt-marsh terrapin
* salt meat
* salt mine
* salt of amber
* salt of colcothar
* salt of hartshorn
* salt of lemon
* salt of Saturn
* salt of soda
* salt of sorrel
* salt of tartar
* salt of the earth
* salt of tin
* salt of Venus
* salt of vitriol
* salt of wormwood
* salt out
* salt pan
* salt pig
* salt pork
* salt rheum
* salt-rising bread
* Salt River
* salt sea, Salt Sea
* salt sedative
* salt shaker
* salt spoon
* saltspoon
* salt spray test
* salt substitute
* salt the mine
* salt tree
* salt truck
* salt-water
* salt water
* saltwater
* salt water taffy
* salt wedge
* salt works
* Schlippe's salt
* sea salt
* sedative salt
* sell salt to a slug
* smelling salt
* spirit of salt
* spirits of salt
* sulfur salt
* sulphur salt
* syntactic salt
* table salt
* take with a pinch of salt
* throw salt
* Tutton's salt
* white salt
* with all the salt in the Dead Sea
* worth one's salt
* worth one's weight in salt

##### Related terms

* salary
* salad

##### Descendants

* Bislama: sol
* Tok Pisin: sol

##### Translations
#### Adjective

salt (comparative more salt, superlative most salt)
* Of water: containing salt, saline.
    Why the Sea is Salt
** 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 97:After a few days of north-west wind, the waters of the Gordon will be found salt for twelve miles up from the bar.
* Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.
    salt beef
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm.
* Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.
    a salt marsh
* Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.
    salt grass
* Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
    a salt mine
    The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.
* (figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
** c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me […] .
* (figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
** c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:It is impossible you should see this, / Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, / As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross / As ignorance made drunk.
** 1653, Thomas Urquhart, transl., The First Book of the works of Mr. Francis Rabelais‎, Book 2, Chapter 22, p. 153:And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their accesse to her, and every way keeping such a coyle with her, as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]
* (colloquial, archaic) Costly; expensive.

##### Derived terms

* saltness
* salt spray

##### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

#### Verb

salt (third-person singular simple present salts, present participle salting, simple past and past participle salted)
* (transitive) To add salt to.
    to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
* (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
    The brine begins to salt.
* (nautical, of a ship) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
* To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
** (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
** (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
** (transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
*** 1964, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, page 417:The composition of the fallout can also be changed by "salting" the weapon to be detonated. This consists in the inclusion of significant quantities of certain elements, possibly enriched in specific isotopes, for the purpose of producing induced radioactivity. There are several reasons why a weapon might be salted.
* (transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
** 1976 December 11, Ronnie Allen, “No Political Eunuch”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 4:The Libertarians wish we had won the Vietnamese War, they would like to revoke civil rights legislation, they believe (even though they are supposedly anti-state) in a stronger Pentagon. They are salted with Nixonites, Young Americans for Freedom, John Birchers, Reaganites — in other words the old Joe McCarthy gang again. I thought they had left us, or reformed, or taken up knitting.
    They salted the document with arcane language.
** 1993, The Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy, page 154:These were pamphlets, often written in various Jewish vernaculars, describing the location of the Holy sites and salting the accounts with mythic and homiletical materials.
* (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
* To render a thing useless.
** (military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
    In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas.
** (wiki jargon) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “add salt”): desalt

##### Derived terms

* desalt
* salt away
* salt down
* salt out
* salt the earth
* salt up
* undersalt

##### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin saltus.

#### Noun

salt (plural salts)
* (obsolete) A bounding; a leaping; a prance.
** 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass, in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume V page 67
    […] he hath the skill to draw Their nectar forth, with kissing; and could make More wanton salts from this brave promontory, Down to this valley, than the nimble roe;

### Anagrams

* Alts, LTAs, TLAs, alts, last, lats, slat

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan salt, from Latin saltus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈsal]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsalt]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

salt m (plural salts)
* jump
* waterfall

#### Derived terms

* salt de perxa
* saltiró

#### Related terms

* saltar

### References

* “salt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “salt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Crimean Gothic
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

### Noun

salt
* salt
** 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
    Salt. Sal.

## Czech
### Noun

salt
* genitive plural of salto

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse saltr (“salt”)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /salˀd/, [sælˀd̥], [sælˀt]

#### Adjective

salt
* salty, salt

##### Inflection

$^1$ When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. $^2$ The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse salt (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old High German salz, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt), from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls. Compare Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish salt.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /salˀt/, [sæ̝lˀt]

#### Noun

salt n (singular definite saltet, plural indefinite salte)
* salt

##### Inflection
### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

salt
* imperative of salte

##### Related terms

* salte
* mineralsalt

## Faroese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [sal̥t]

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.

#### Noun

salt n (genitive singular salts, plural sølt)
* salt

##### Related terms

* pipar
* edikur
* sinnopur
* olivinolja
* epli
* pannukøka
* rosina
* sukur
* drúvusukur
* vaniljusukur
* súltusukur
* siropur

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse saltr (“salt”), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.

#### Adjective

salt
* salty

##### Declension
## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin saltus.

### Noun

salt m (plural salts)
* jump, leap, spring

#### Related terms

* saltâ

## Gothic
### Romanization

salt
* Romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐍄

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sal̥t/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -al̥t

### Noun

salt n (genitive singular salts, nominative plural sölt)
* salt
    Geturðu rétt mér saltið?Can you pass me the salt?

#### Derived terms

* salta
* saltstaukur
* saltsýra
* vega salt

### Adjective

salt
* positive degree neuter singular nominative/accusative of saltur

## Latvian
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“cold; hot”). Cognates include Lithuanian šálti.

### Pronunciation

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### Verb

salt (intransitive, 1st conjugation, present salstu, salsti, salst, past salu)
* to freeze

#### Conjugation
## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* salte, scealte, selt, sealt, saulte, sawt, zalt

### Etymology

From Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą (noun) and Proto-Germanic *saltaz (adjective).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /salt/
* (Southern, Kent) IPA: /zalt/, /zɛlt/
* (late) IPA: /sau̯lt/

### Noun

salt (uncountable)
* salt (sodium chloride)
* Something containing or for storing salt
* Any of a group of crystalline compounds that resemble salt

#### Related terms

* salten
* salthous

#### Descendants

* English: salt
* Scots: sawt, salt, saut
* Yola: zall

#### References

* “salt, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.

### Adjective

salt (plural and weak singular salte, comparative salter, superlative saltest)
* salty, tasting of salt
* salted, coated in salt

#### Descendants

* English: salt
* Scots: sawt, salt, saut

#### References

* “salt, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Pronunciation

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### Etymology 1

From Old Norse saltr.

#### Adjective

salt (neuter singular salt, definite singular and plural salte, comparative saltere, indefinite superlative saltest, definite superlative salteste)
* salty, salt, salted
    salte peanøtter - salted peanuts

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse salt (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old High German salz, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt), from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls. Compare Danish, Swedish and Icelandic salt.

#### Noun

salt n (definite singular saltet, indefinite plural salter, definite plural salta or saltene)
* salt

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

salt
* imperative of salte

### Derived terms

* bordsalt
* havsalt
* salte (verb)
* saltholdig
* saltinnhold
* saltkrystall
* saltlake
* saltsyre
* saltvann
* sjøsalt
* veisalt

### References

* “salt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɑlt/

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse saltr.

#### Adjective

salt (neuter singular salt, definite singular and plural salte, comparative saltare, indefinite superlative saltast, definite superlative saltaste)
* salty, salt, salted

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse salt (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old High German salz, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt), from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls.

#### Noun

salt n (definite singular saltet, indefinite plural salt, definite plural salta)
* salt

### Derived terms

* bordsalt
* havsalt
* salte (verb)
* saltkrystall
* saltlake
* saltsyre
* sjøsalt

### References

* “salt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Danish
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse salt.

#### Noun

salt n
* salt

##### Descendants

* Danish: salt

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse saltr.

#### Adjective

salt
* salty, salt

##### Descendants

* Danish: salt

## Old Frisian
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *salt (“salt”)

### Noun

salt n
* salt

#### Descendants

* North Frisian: saalt
* Saterland Frisian: Soalt, Saalt (Skäddel, Strukelje)
* West Frisian: sâlt

### Adjective

salt
* salty, salted

#### Descendants

* West Frisian: sâlt

## Old Norse
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *saltą.

#### Noun

salt n
* salt

##### Related terms

* salta (“to salt”)
* saltr (“salty”)

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: salt
* Faroese: salt
* Norn: salt
* Norwegian Nynorsk: salt
* Norwegian Bokmål: salt
* Old Swedish: salt
** Swedish: salt
* Old Danish: salt
** Danish: salt

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

salt
* strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of saltr (“salty”)

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “salt”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

## Old Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse salt.

### Noun

salt n
* salt

#### Descendants

* Swedish: salt c

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin saltus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsalt/

### Noun

salt n (plural salturi)
* leap
* saltation

#### Related terms

* sălta
* săltare
* săltat
* săltăreț
* săltător
* săltătură

### Verb

salt
* first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of sălta

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /salt/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

From Old Swedish salter, from Old Norse saltr, from Proto-Germanic *saltaz, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.

#### Adjective

salt (comparative saltare, superlative saltast)
* salty
    Antonym: (of water) söt
    Soppan är för saltThe soup is too salty

##### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

### Etymology 2

From Old Swedish salt, from Old Norse salt (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old High German salz, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt), from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls. Compare Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian salt.

#### Noun

salt n
* salt
** (uncountable) sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
** (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.

##### Synonyms

* bordssalt

##### Derived terms

* bergsalt
* havssalt
* medelhavssalt
* saltkar
* saltlake
* saltkristall
* saltströare
* saltstänkt
* saltsyra
* strö salt i såren (“rub salt in the wounds”)
* ta med en nypa salt (“take with a grain of salt”)
* vägsalt

##### Related terms

* salta
* sälta

### References

* salt in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* salt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* salt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* last, lats, stal, tals

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Semantic loan from English as in, via an unadapted borrowing from English salt, which is a calque of Tagalog asin, due to homophony with English as in.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈsolt/ [ˈsolt̪]
* Rhymes: -olt
* Syllabification: salt

### Interjection

salt (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜎ᜔ᜆ᜔) (slang, dated)
* mild intensifier: literally
    Ang init ng araw, salt pare!The sun is so hot, as in [HOT] bro!

#### Usage notes

* Usually used by younger generations, such as millennials and Gen Z, belonging to upper social classes, such as those proficient in both Taglish and Conyo, especially around Metro Manila.

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sal- (“to unleash”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saɫt/

### Adverb

salt
* exclusively, only, just, absolute
    salt çoğunlukabsolute majority

#### Synonyms

* bir
* sadece
* sırf
* tek
* yalnız
* (absolute) mutlak

#### Related terms

* salmak

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: սալթ (saltʻ)

#### Further reading

* “salt”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu