English Explanatory Dictionary

salad

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
  2. Especially, such a mixture whose principal base is greens, most especially lettuce.
  3. A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.
  4. Any varied blend or mixture.
  5. Lettuce.

Pronunciation

săʹləd /ˈsæl.əd/ en-us-salad.ogg /ˈsæl.ɪd/ /ˈsaləɖ/ /səˈlɑɖ/ /səˈlɑd̪/ /ˈsæl.ɪt/

Word forms

salad salads sallet

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.

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

Afrikaans: slaai Albanian: sallatë Amharic: ሰላጣ Arabic: سَلَطَة Arabic: شلاضة Arabic: سلطة Armenian: աղցան Armenian: սալաթ Asturian: ensalada Azerbaijani: salat Azerbaijani: صلاته Azerbaijani: سلاطه Belarusian: сала́т Belarusian: сала́та Bengali: সালাদ Breton: saladenn Bulgarian: сала́та Burmese: သနပ် Catalan: amanida Chinese Cantonese: 沙律 Chinese Mandarin: 色拉 Chinese Mandarin: 沙拉 Chinese Mandarin: 沙律 Czech: salát Danish: salat Dutch: salade Esperanto: salato Estonian: salat Faroese: salat Finnish: salaatti French: salade Galician: ensalada Georgian: სალათი Georgian: სალათა German: Salat Greek: σαλάτα Ancient Greek: φυλλάς Ancient Greek: φυλλίς Greenlandic: salaatit Hebrew: סָלָט Hindi: सलाद Hungarian: saláta Icelandic: salat Ido: salado Indonesian: salad Italian: insalata Japanese: サラダ Kazakh: салат Khmer: សាលាដ Korean: 샐러드
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