salon

salon

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French salon (“reception room”), from Middle French, from Italian salone (“large hall”), augmented form of sala (“hall”), from Lombardic sala (“room, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”). Cognate with Old High German sal (“room, house, entrance hall”), Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), Old Church Slavonic село (selo, “courtyard, village”), Lithuanian sala (“island”). Doublet of saloon.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: IPA(key): /ˈsælɒn/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /səˈlɒn/
  • Rhymes: -ɒn

Noun

salon (plural salons)

  1. A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
    Synonyms: hall, lounge, parlor, guest room
  2. A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting.
    Synonyms: circle, cenacle
  3. (art) An art gallery or exhibition; especially the Paris salon or autumn salon.
  4. A beauty salon or similar establishment.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

  • loans, Nosal, Alons, Sơn La, lonas, Sloan, Solan, solan, Nolas, Lonas

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saˈlon/ [saˈl̪on̪]
  • Hyphenation: sa‧lon

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish salón.

Noun

salón (Basahan spelling ᜐᜎᜓᜈ᜔) (obsolete)

  1. a ballroom; a large room used for dancing and banquets
  2. a cabaret
    Synonym: kabaret

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English salon.

Noun

salón (Basahan spelling ᜐᜎᜓᜈ᜔)

  1. a beauty salon
    Synonyms: pabulogan, patusaran, paguntingan, pagupitan

See also

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: sa‧lon

Etymology 1

From Spanish salón.

Noun

salon

  1. (obsolete) a ballroom; a large room used for dancing and banquets

Etymology 2

From English salon.

Noun

salon

  1. a beauty salon

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French salon. Doublet of saloon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saːˈlɔn/
  • Hyphenation: sa‧lon
  • Rhymes: -ɔn

Noun

salon m or n (plural salons, diminutive salonnetje n)

  1. salon, room for receiving guests
  2. pub, café or restaurant (often posh or trendy, or in a French context)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: salon
  • → Indonesian: salon
  • → Papiamentu: salòn

Esperanto

Noun

salon

  1. accusative singular of salo

Finnish

Etymology 1

Noun

salon

  1. genitive singular of salo

Etymology 2

Noun

salon

  1. genitive singular of salko

Anagrams

  • solan

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French, from Italian salone (“large hall”), augmented form of sala (“hall”), from Lombardic sala (“room, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”). Cognate with Old High German sal (“room, house, entrance hall”), Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), Old Church Slavonic село (selo, “courtyard, village”), Lithuanian sala (“island”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sa.lɔ̃/

Noun

salon m (plural salons)

  1. living room
  2. salon
  3. show (exhibition of items), exhibition (large-scale public showing of objects or products)

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch salon, from French salon, from Middle French, from Italian salone (“large hall”), augmented form of sala (“hall”), from Lombardic sala (“room, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsalɔn]
  • Rhymes: -lɔn, -ɔn, -n
  • Hyphenation: sa‧lon

Noun

salon (plural salon-salon)

  1. salon,
    1. A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
    2. A beauty salon or similar establishment.

Further reading

  • “salon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saˈlon/

Noun

salon (plural salones)

  1. sitting room, living room

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

salon m (plural salons)

  1. (Jersey) drawing room

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French salon, from Middle French, from Italian salone (“large hall”), augmented form of sala (“hall”), from Lombardic sala (“room, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”). Possibly a doublet of sioło.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsa.lɔn/
  • Rhymes: -alɔn
  • Syllabification: sa‧lon

Noun

salon m inan (diminutive salonik)

  1. living room
    Synonyms: (archaic) bawialka, (archaic) bawialnia
  2. any large room
  3. service point, shop, store, parlor (used especially for shops in a shopping center)
    Synonym: studio
  4. exhibition, show
  5. (derogatory, politics, singular only) ruling class, the elite, the establishment

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • salon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • salon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French salon.

Pronunciation

Noun

salon n (plural saloane)

  1. living room
  2. salon

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From French salon, from Italian salone.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sǎloːn/
  • Hyphenation: sa‧lon

Noun

sàlōn m (Cyrillic spelling са̀ло̄н)

  1. living room
  2. parlor (room for lounging)
  3. gallery (institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art)
  4. gallery (establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art)
  5. shop (hairdresser, tailor, massage etc.)
    frizerski salon ― barbershop
    krojački salon ― tailor shop

Declension

References

  • “salon”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صالون (salon), from French salon.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: sa‧lon

Noun

salon (definite accusative salonu, plural salonlar)

  1. living room
  2. shop, store

Declension

Synonyms

  • (living room): oturma odası

Derived terms

  • (shop): güzellik salonu

References

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صالون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 751
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “salon”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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