Salt

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.3.3 Related phrases 1.3.4 Further Reading 1.4 Related terms 1.5 Verb 1.5.1 Derived terms 1.5.2 Translations 2 Catalan 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun 3 Icelandic 3.1 Noun 4 Latvian 4.1 Verb 5 Swedish 5.1 Adjective 5.2 Noun 5.2.1 Usage notes 5.2.2 Synonyms 5.2.3 Derived terms 5.2.4 Related terms 6 Turkish 6.1 Adverb

English

Etymology

Old English sealt.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɑlt/

Noun

salt (uncountable and countable; plural: salts)

1. An ionic compound composed of an alkalai metal atom and a halogen atom.
2. A compound formed from the reaction of an acid with a base
3. General term for sodium chloride (NaCl) (also common salt).
4. A marsh (also salt-marsh)
5. (slang): A sailor (also old salt).
6. (cryptography): additional bytes inserted into a term to increase randomness and obscure algorithm either before or after a step of encryption.

Derived terms

• desalt (verb).
• sea salt
• saltwater
• salt lake
• salt-marsh

Translations

Albanian: kripë Afrikaans: sout Arabic: ٠ِلْح Azeri: duz Basque: gatz Bosnian: sol f. Breton: holen m. -où pl. Bulgarian: сол Catalan: sal f. Cherokee: ᎠᎹ (āma) Chinese Characters: 鹽 / 塩 / 盐; 鹺, 鹾 Chinese: 盐 (yán) Croatian: sol f. Czech: sůl Dutch: zout n. (1,2,3), keukenzout n. (3), zeezout n. (3), rot m. (5), oude rot m. (5) Esperanto: salo Estonian: sool Finnish: suola Filipino: (asin) French: sel m. (1,2,3), loup de mer m. (5) Frisian: sâlt Galician: sal German: Salz n. (1,2,3), Kochsalz n. (3) Greek: αλάτι Guarani: juky Gujarati: નમક (namak), લૂણો (lu.no) Hebrew: מלח (melach) Hindi: नमक (namak) Hungarian: só

Icelandic: salt n. Ilocano: asin Indonesian: garam Interlingua: sal Italian: sale m. Japanese: 塩 (しお, shio) Latin: sal Latvian: sāls f. (1,2,3) Marathi: लवण (lava.n) Mongolian: давс Old English: sealt n. Persian: ن٠ک (næmæk) Polish: sól f. Portuguese: sal m. Romanian: sare f. Russian: соль (sol') Sanskrit: लवणम् (lava.nam) Serbian: Cyrillic: со f. Roman: so f. Slovak: soľ f. (1, 2, 3) Slovene: sol f. (1,2,3) Spanish: sal f. Swedish: salt Tagalog: asin Telugu: లవణం (lavaNaM) (1,2); ఉప్పు (uppu) (3) Tetum: masin Thai: เกลือ, เค็ม Tupinambá: îukyra Turkish: tuz Turkmen: duz Volapük: sal

Related phrases

• salt of the earth (a person of great worthiness)
• take with a pinch of salt (regard as exaggerated)
• worth one's salt (capable)

Further Reading

• Wikipedia article on Sodium chloride
• Wikipedia article on Salt

Related terms

• salty

Verb

to salt (third-person singular simple present salts, present participle salting, simple past salted, past participle salted)

1. To add salt.
2. Salting a mine. Practice of blasting gold into a portion of a mine, to give the appearance of it being a productive seam.
3. (cryptography): Practice of adding filler bytes before encryption (essentially, a technique to make brute force decryption much harder.) salting an algorythm.
4. Include colorful language.

Derived terms

• desalt (verb)

Translations

Bosnian: soliti, posoliti Croatian: soliti, posoliti Finnish: suolata German: salzen Latvian: sālīt Old English: sealtan, sieltan

Polish: solić, posolić Serbian: Cyrillic: солити, посолити Roman: soliti, posoliti Swedish: salta

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Catalan

Etymology

Latin saltus

Noun

salt

1. jump

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Icelandic

Noun

salt n.

1. salt

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Latvian

Verb

salt

1. freeze

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Swedish

Adjective

salt, saltare, saltast

1. salty

Noun

Inflections of Salt	Neuter
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite form	Definite form	Indefinite form	Definite form
Nominative	Salt	saltet	salter	salterna
Genitive	Salts	saltets	salters	salternas

Salt n.

1. salt 1-3.

Usage notes

When used for the salt NaCl (common salt) specifically, the word is uncountable.

Synonyms

• bordssalt

Derived terms

• bergsalt
• havssalt
• medelhavssalt
• saltlake
• saltkristall
• saltstänkt
• saltsyra

Related terms

• salta
• sälta

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Turkish

Adverb

salt

1. exclusivelyar:salt

el:salt fr:salt ko:salt io:salt it:salt la:salt hu:salt ja:salt pl:salt ro:salt ru:salt sr:salt fi:salt ta:salt zh:salt