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salad en · NOUN

Pronunciation

/ˈsæl.ɪt/ (obsolete)
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/səˈlɑɖ/ (South-Asia)
/ˈsæl.ɪd/ (Southern-US)
/ˈsæl.əd/
/ˈsaləɖ/ (South-Asia)
/səˈlɑd̪/ (South-Asia)
săʹləd

Etymology

PIE word *sḗh₂l Etymology tree Italian salatader. Old French saladebor. Middle English salade English salad 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.

Meanings

(countable, uncountable) A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often involving two or more such ingredients mixed together, with larger items cut or torn into small pieces, and usually with a dressing or binding; usually served cold or at room temperature, as a dish or savoury sandwich filling.
- At various times and in different areas salads, compounded of meats, spices, tubers have been treated as of aphrodisiac value. 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 213:
- We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.
- 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. 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]:
(countable, uncountable) One or more raw vegetables of the kind used in salads; typically greens (especially lettuce).
- I prefer a bit of salad on my burger.
- sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment
- Buy a bag of salad at the supermarket.
(countable, idiomatic, uncountable) Any mixture of different things.
- word salad
- 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'. 2021 October 16, Gurvinder Singh, “Why Pakistan will fail”, in Guruwonder:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
sallet		alternative	lexicographic
salads	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (109)

lo ສລັດ (food) · lo ສະຫຼັດ (food) · am ሰላጣ (food) · kmr selete (food) · tr salata (food) · yue 沙律 (food) · uk сала́та (food) · hy աղցան (food) · lo ສະຫລັດ (food) · cmn 色拉 (food) · fa-ira سالاد (food) · bg сала́та (food) · fi salaatti (vegetable) · hu saláta (food) · tl ensalada (food) · az salat (food) · fr salade (food) · sl solata (food) · hi सलाद (food) · it insalata (food) · ota سلاطه (food) · ug سالات (food) · kmr zelete (food) · ca amanida (food) · sq sallatë (food) · ms salatah (food) · ary شلاضة (food) · mn шанцай (food) · ja サラダ (food) · lv salāti (food) · he סָלָט (food) · et salat (food) · ota صلاطه (food) · cmn 沙拉 (food) · lt salotos (food) · bn সালাদ (food) · af slaai (food) · id salad (food) · gd sailead (food) · is salat (food) · nl salade (food) · mi mangamata (food) · az سلاطه (food) · fo salat (food) · mn салат (food) · cy addail (food) · uk сала́т (food) · br saladenn (food) · ps سلاته (food) · rsk шалата (food) · eo salato (food) · sv sallad (food) · ko 샐러드 (food) · pl surówka (food) · ro salată (food) · sk šalát (food) · ka სალათი (food) · gl ensalada (food) · kk салат (food) · mk сала́та (food) · yi סאַלאַט (food) · pl sałata (vegetable) · cmn 沙律 (food) · pl sałatka (food) · tk salat (food) · pt salada (food) · sh saláta (food) · grc φυλλίς (food) · cy salad (food) · lb zalot (food) · oc ensalada (food) · mi huamata (food) · th สลัด (food) · lo ຍຳ (food) · ar سَلَطَة (food) · be сала́т (food) · fi salaatti (food) · ota سلاته (food) · io salado (food) · az صلاته (food) · be сала́та (food) · ru сала́т (food) · hy սալաթ (food) · es ensalada (food) · de Salat (food) · nb salat (food) · nn salatrett (food) · ast ensalada (food) · grc φυλλάς (food) · sh сала́та (food) · ka სალათა (food) · pdt Zellot (food) · sw saladi (food) · ota صلاته (food) · kl salaatit (food) · ky салат (food) · km សាលាដ (food) · da salat (food) · ru сала́т (vegetable) · om salaaxaa (food) · ur سَلاد (food) · el σαλάτα (food) · la acētāria (food) · uz salat (food) · cs salát (food) · ms salad (food) · my သနပ် (food) · tg салат (food) · ary سلطة (food)

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salad en · NOUN

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