English Online Dictionary. What means salt? What does salt mean?
English
Etymology 1
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 Doublet of sal, ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".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(key): /sɒlt/, /sɔːlt/
- (US) enPR: sôlt, IPA(key): /sɔlt/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: sält, IPA(key): /sɑlt/, [sɑɫt], [sɑɫʔ]
- (New Zealand) enPR: sŏlt, IPA(key): /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.
- (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) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
- (slang) A sailor (also old salt).
- (cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.
- A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
- (obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
- (obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.
- Attic salt
- (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
- (historical, in the plural) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
- (figurative) 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) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
- There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.
- (UK, historical) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
- One who joins a workplace for the purpose of unionizing it.
Synonyms
- sal (obsolete)
Derived terms
Related terms
- salary
- salad
Descendants
- Bislama: sol
- Tok Pisin: sol
Translations
Adjective
salt (comparative more salt, superlative most salt)
- Of water: containing salt, saline.
- Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.
- Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.
- Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.
- Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
- (figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
- (figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
- (colloquial, archaic) Costly; expensive.
Derived terms
- saltness
- salt spray
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.
- (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.
- (transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
- (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.
- (wiki) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.
- (military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of "add salt"): desalt
Derived terms
- desalt
- salt away
- salt down
- salt out
- salt the earth
- salt up
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
- 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass, in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume V page 67
Anagrams
- Alts, LTAs, TLAs, alts, last, lats, slat
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan salt, from Latin saltus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [ˈsal]
- IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈsalt]
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.
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
Czech
Noun
salt
- genitive plural of salto
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse saltr (“salt”), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /salˀd/, [sælˀd̥], [sælˀt]
Adjective
salt
- salty, salt
Inflection
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(key): /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(key): [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
Declension
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(key): /sal̥t/
- Rhymes: -al̥t
Noun
salt n (genitive singular salts, nominative plural sölt)
- salt
Declension
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
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(key): /salt/
- (Southern, Kent) IPA(key): /zalt/, /zɛlt/
- (late) IPA(key): /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
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
References
- “salt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /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
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-Germanic *saltą (“salt”), *saltaz (“salty, salted”).
Noun
salt n
- salt
Inflection
Descendants
- North Frisian: saalt
- Saterland Frisian: Soalt, Saalt
- West Frisian: sâlt
Adjective
salt
- salty, salted
Descendants
- West Frisian: sâlt
Old Norse
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *saltą.
Noun
salt n
- salt
Declension
Related terms
- salta (“to salt”)
- saltr (“salty”)
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
salt
- strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of saltr (“salty”)
References
- “salt”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse salt.
Noun
salt n
- salt
Declension
Descendants
- Swedish: salt c
Romanian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin saltus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsalt/
Noun
salt n (plural salturi)
- leap
- saltation
Declension
Related terms
- sălta
- săltare
- săltat
- săltăreț
- săltător
- săltătură
Verb
salt
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of sălta
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /salt/
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
Declension
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.
Declension
Synonyms
- bordssalt
Derived terms
- bergsalt
- havssalt
- medelhavssalt
- saltlake
- saltkristall
- 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
Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *sal- (“to unleash”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /saɫt/
Adverb
salt
- exclusively, only, just, absolute
Synonyms
- bir
- sadece
- sırf
- tek
- yalnız
- (absolute) mutlak
Related terms
- salmak
Further reading
- “salt”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu