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sal¹

  • /sæl/

Where it comes from

From Middle English sal, from Latin sal. Doublet of salt.

noun

  1. obsolete, uncountable Salt.

sal²

  • /sɑːl/

Where it comes from

From Hindi साल (sāl), from Sanskrit शाल (śāla).

noun sals · shaal · shala · saul

  1. Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree. As the sals were cut in the lower foothill districts the loggers looked towards the mountains in their search for other hardwood timber.

sal³

Where it comes from

Coined by Eduard Suess in 1909, in Das Antlitz der Erde, as a blend of translingual Si (silicon) + Al (aluminum).

noun Sal

  1. alternative, uncountable Alternative form of sial Wegener bases his theory of the drifting continents on the assumption that there are two distinct levels to be taken into account, the surface of the masses of "sal" which form the continents and the surface of the "sima" in which they float.

Sal⁴

  • /sæl/

Sounds like sell, cell (celery-salary merger) · Rhymes with -æl

proper noun

  1. A diminutive of the male given names Salomon, Salvador, and Salvatore. Indeed what do the tensomethings, who might be watching the show at that hour, make of jokes like Joey telling Chandler that his uncle Sal has a really big tongue.
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Sally.

Sal⁵

  • /sæl/

Sounds like sell, cell (celery-salary merger) · Rhymes with -æl

proper noun

  1. One of the ten islands of Cape Verde.

Sal⁶

  • /sæl/

Sounds like sell, cell (celery-salary merger) · Rhymes with -æl

noun

  1. alternative, uncountable Alternative form of sal

SAL⁷

noun SALs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of structural adjustment loan

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Society of Antiquaries of London

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: nitrum, alembroth, salt, armoniac, ammoniac, lsa, salty, ammoniacum, sally, sars, prunelle, prunella, hepatica, hall, house, chamber

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noun Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree

日本語沙羅 sara, 沙羅 shara
हिन्दीसाल sāl
Portuguêssal

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"sal." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sal. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

sal. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sal

Chicago

"sal." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sal.

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@misc{sal_2026,
  title = {sal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}