salad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *sḗh₂l
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.
Inflected forms:
form: salads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sallet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A food made primarily of one or more raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
At various times and in different areas salads, compounded of meats, spices, tubers have been treated as of aphrodisiac value.
chicken salad
We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.
gloss: A food made primarily of one or more raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: romaine salad
kale salad
gloss: One or more raw vegetables of the kind used in salads.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment
gloss: Any varied blend or mixture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
idiomatic
uncountable
examples: 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'.
gloss: Lettuce.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: I prefer a little salad on my burger.
Related words: taramosalata
Derived words: 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 bird
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
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: slaai
lang: Albanian
word: sallatë
lang: Amharic
word: ሰላጣ
roman: sälaṭa
lang: Arabic
word: سَلَطَة
roman: salaṭa
lang: Arabic
word: شلاضة
roman: šlāḍa, šalāḍa
lang: Arabic
word: سلطة
roman: salaṭa
lang: Armenian
word: աղցան
roman: aġcʻan
lang: Armenian
word: սալաթ
roman: salatʻ
lang: Asturian
word: ensalada
lang: Azerbaijani
word: salat
lang: Azerbaijani
word: صلاته
roman: sılāta
lang: Azerbaijani
word: سلاطه
roman: salāta
lang: Belarusian
word: сала́т
roman: salát
lang: Belarusian
word: сала́та
roman: saláta
lang: Bengali
word: সালাদ
roman: śalad
lang: Breton
word: saladenn
lang: Bulgarian
word: сала́та
roman: saláta
lang: Burmese
word: သနပ်
roman: sa.nap
lang: Catalan
word: amanida
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 沙律
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 色拉
roman: sèlā
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 沙拉
roman: shālā
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 沙律
roman: shālǜ
lang: Czech
word: salát
lang: Danish
word: salat
lang: Dutch
word: salade
lang: Esperanto
word: salato
lang: Estonian
word: salat
lang: Faroese
word: salat
lang: Finnish
word: salaatti
lang: French
word: salade
lang: Galician
word: ensalada
lang: Georgian
word: სალათი
roman: salati
lang: Georgian
word: სალათა
roman: salata
lang: German
word: Salat
lang: Greek
word: σαλάτα
roman: saláta
lang: Ancient Greek
word: φυλλάς
roman: phullás
lang: Ancient Greek
word: φυλλίς
roman: phullís
lang: Greenlandic
word: salaatit
lang: Hebrew
word: סָלָט
roman: salát
lang: Hindi
word: सलाद
roman: salād
lang: Hungarian
word: saláta
lang: Icelandic
word: salat
lang: Ido
word: salado
lang: Indonesian
word: salad
lang: Italian
word: insalata
lang: Japanese
word: サラダ
roman: sarada
lang: Kazakh
word: салат
roman: salat
lang: Khmer
word: សាលាដ
roman: saalaat
lang: Korean
word: 샐러드
roman: saelleodeu
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: zelete
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: selete
lang: Kyrgyz
word: салат
roman: salat
lang: Lao
word: ສະຫຼັດ
roman: sa lat
lang: Lao
word: ສະຫລັດ
roman: sa lat
lang: Lao
word: ສລັດ
roman: sa lat
lang: Lao
word: ຍຳ
roman: nyam
lang: Latin
word: acētāria
lang: Latvian
word: salāti
lang: Lithuanian
word: salotos
lang: Luxembourgish
word: zalot
lang: Macedonian
word: сала́та
roman: saláta
lang: Malay
word: salad
lang: Malay
word: salatah
lang: Māori
word: mangamata
lang: Māori
word: huamata
lang: Mongolian
word: шанцай
roman: šancaj
lang: Mongolian
word: салат
roman: salat
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: salat
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: salatrett
lang: Occitan
word: ensalada
lang: Oromo
word: salaaxaa
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: шалата
roman: šalata
lang: Pashto
word: سلاته
roman: salātá
lang: Iranian Persian
word: سالاد
roman: sâlâd
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Zellot
lang: Polish
word: sałatka
lang: Polish
word: surówka
lang: Portuguese
word: salada
lang: Romanian
word: salată
lang: Russian
word: сала́т
roman: salát
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: sailead
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сала́та
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: saláta
lang: Slovak
word: šalát
lang: Slovene
word: solata
lang: Spanish
word: ensalada
lang: Swahili
word: saladi
lang: Swedish
word: sallad
lang: Tagalog
word: ensalada
lang: Tajik
word: салат
roman: salat
lang: Thai
word: สลัด
roman: sà-làt
lang: Turkish
word: salata
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: سلاطه
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: صلاته
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: صلاطه
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: سلاته
lang: Turkmen
word: salat
lang: Ukrainian
word: сала́т
roman: salát
lang: Ukrainian
word: сала́та
roman: saláta
lang: Urdu
word: سَلاد
roman: salād
lang: Uyghur
word: سالات
roman: salat
lang: Uzbek
word: salat
lang: Welsh
word: addail
lang: Welsh
word: salad
lang: Yiddish
word: סאַלאַט
roman: salat