dal

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dal

1. (metrology) Symbol for decalitre, an SI unit of fluid measure equal to 10¹ litres.

• dahl, dhal, daal, dholl, doll

Borrowed from Hindi दाल (dāl) or Bengali ডাল (ḍal).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɑːl/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːl

dal (countable and uncountable, plural dals)

1. Any of many dried husked pulses (legume), including peas, beans and lentils.
2. A dish made from lentils, cooked with spices, tomatoes and onions etc.
   • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 6, in Burmese Days‎:

     A stout Burmese woman, wife of a constable, was kneeling outside the cage ladling rice and watery dahl into tin pannikins.

3. A tropical herb with yellow flowers; the pigeon pea.

• legume
• pulse

• dal segno (different etymology)

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “dal”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

• ADL, DLA, LAD, LDA, lad

From Middle Dutch dal, from Old Dutch dal, from Proto-West Germanic *dal (“valley, dale”).

• IPA^(key): [dɑl]

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dal (plural dale)

1. dale, valley

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

From Proto-Albanian *dala,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelh₁-. Compare Ancient Greek θάλλω (thállō, “to grow, bloom, thrive”), Welsh deillio (“to emanate, derive”).[2]

dal (aorist dola, participle dalë) (active)

1. (active voice) to exit, go out
2. (active voice) to leave

dílet (aorist -, participle dalë) (passive)

1. (passive voice, impersonal, third person) to come; to do come

• hyj

• active verb dal (aorist dola (dóla); dalë (dálë)) • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)
• passive (impersonal) verb dilet (dílet) (3rd person) • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)

• IPA^(key): [dɑɫ]

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Cognate with Chagatai and Ottoman Turkish دال (dal, “back”). Compare also dialectal Turkish dal (“back; arm; shoulder”), Kyrgyz далы (dalı, “shoulder blade”).

Possibly of Mongolic origin; compare Mongolian дал (dal, “shoulder; shoulder blade”).

dal (definite accusative dalı, plural dallar)

1. back, rear

   Synonyms: arxa, ard

   Antonyms: qabaq, ön

2. (anatomy) back

   Synonyms: bel, kürək

3. bottom, buttocks, nates, posterior, seat

   Synonym: (vulgar) göt

4. (dated) end

   Synonym: son

5. (colloquial) sequel, continuation; something which is continued

   Synonyms: ard, davam

• dalında
• dalınca

• Sevortjan, E. V. (1980) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow: Nauka, pages 131-132

From Common Turkic *dal.

dal (definite accusative dalı, plural dallar)

1. (poetic) branch

   Synonym: budaq

• IPA^(key): /ta˨˦/

From Proto-Tai *taːᴬ (“maternal grandfather”). Cognate with Thai ตา (dtaa), Lao ຕາ (tā), Lü ᦎᦱ (ṫaa), Shan တႃ (tǎa), Zhuang da.

dal

1. maternal grandfather

From Proto-Tai *p.taːᴬ (“eye”). Cognate with Thai ตา (dtaa), Northern Thai ᨲᩣ, Lao ຕາ (tā), Lü ᦎᦱ (ṫaa), Tai Dam ꪔꪱ, Shan တႃ (tǎa), Aiton တႃ (tā), Ahom 𑜄𑜠 (ta) or 𑜄𑜡 (tā), Southern Kam dal, Zhuang da. Compare Old Chinese 睹 (*taːʔ, “to see”).

dal

1. eye

• IPA^(key): [ˈdal]

dal

1. masculine singular past active participle of dát

From Old Norse dalr (“valley”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈdæːˀl]

dal c (singular definite dalen, plural indefinite dale)

1. dale, valley (elongated depression between hills or mountains)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dal

1. imperative of dale

• IPA^(key): /dɑl/

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• Hyphenation: dal
• Rhymes: -ɑl
• Homophone: Dal

From Middle Dutch dal, from Old Dutch dal, from Proto-Germanic *dalą.

dal n (plural dalen, diminutive dalletje n)

1. valley

• gletsjerdal
• rivierdal
• tranendal

• Afrikaans: dal

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

dal m (plural dallen, diminutive dalletje n)

1. a type of stone to pave the floor with, flagstone

From Old Norse dalr.

dal m

1. valley

From Latin dāre, present active infinitive of dō (“give”).

dal

1. to give

dal

1. Romanization of 𐌳𐌰𐌻

An onomatopoeia. It is also possible that it is a back-formation from dalol.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɒl]

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• Rhymes: -ɒl

dal (plural dalok)

1. song

   Synonyms: ének, nóta; see also Thesaurus:ének

• dal in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• dal in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

dal

1. inflection of dalur:
   1. indefinite accusative singular
   2. indefinite dative singular

dal

1. Contraction of da il; from the
2. since

   dal 1963 ― since 1963

From da +‎ l.

dal

1. from the (masculine singular)

• dal, dholl

From Hindi दाल (dāl).

• IPA^(key): [dal]

dal

1. any of many dried husked pulses (legume), including peas, beans and lentils; dahl
2. a dish made from lentils, cooked with spices, tomatoes and onions etc.

From Old Dutch dal, from Proto-Germanic *dalą.

dal n

1. valley
2. dip, lower area in the landscape
3. hole

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• dālen

• Dutch: dal
  • Afrikaans: dal
• Limburgish: daal

• “dal”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “dal”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈtal/

dal

1. now

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

From Old Norse dalr (“dale, valley”).

dal m (definite singular dalen, indefinite plural daler, definite plural dalene)

1. a valley

From Old Norse dalr. Cognate with English dale.

• IPA^(key): /dɑːl/

dal m (definite singular dalen, indefinite plural dalar, definite plural dalane)

1. a valley

• “dal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• del, dau, deu

dal

1. Contraction of de + lo

From Proto-Germanic *dalą.

dal n

1. valley

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Dutch: dal
  • Dutch: dal
    • Afrikaans: dal
  • Limburgish: daal

• “dal”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• ġedāl

From Proto-Germanic *dailą.

• IPA^(key): /dɑl/

dāl n

1. division

• Middle English: dol
  • English: dole

dal

1. accusative/dative singular of dalr

From Proto-Germanic *dalą.

dal n

1. valley

• Middle Low German: dal
  • Low German: dal, daal
    • German Low German: Daal

• ᚦᛆᛚ

From Old Norse dalr, from Proto-Germanic *dalą.

dal m

1. valley

• Swedish: dal c

The conjugation of this verb in Papiamentu follows that of former Dutch verbs.

Therefore more probably from Dutch douwen (“push”).

And less probably from Spanish dale: da + le ("give it").

dal

1. to hit
2. to beat

• IPA^(key): /dal/

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: dal
• Homophone: Dal

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dalь.

dal f

1. (literary) distance (space located at a very large distance)

   Synonym: oddal

   z dala ― from a distance/from afar/from far away

   skok w dal ― long jump

Borrowed from Hindi दाल (dāl).

dal f

1. dal (Indian lentil dish)

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

dal

1. feminine plural of da (“from; by”) (used before a consonant)

Cognate with Azerbaijani dal (“branch”).

• IPA^(key): [tɑl]

dal

1. tree

• 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1985) “dal”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎, Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 25
• 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2014) “dal”, in 撒拉语366条会话读本 [Salar 366 Conversation Reader]‎, 1st edition, 社会科学文献出版社 (Social Science Literature Press), →ISBN, page 105

• IPA^(key): /ta⁵⁵/

dal

1. eye

dal

1. Romanization of 𒊑

From Old Swedish dal, from Old Norse dalr.

dal c

1. valley, dale

• berg- och dalbana
• dalgång

• dal in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• dal in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• dal in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• IPA^(key): /daɫ/

From Ottoman Turkish دال (dal), from Proto-Turkic *tāl, *dal.

dal (definite accusative dalı, plural dallar)

1. branch
2. (slang) cigarette, joint

dal

1. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: د

• IPA^(key): /dal/
• Rhymes: -al

From Proto-Brythonic *dalɣ-, from Proto-Indo-European *delgʰ- (“to become fixed”).[1] Cognate with Latin indulgeo.[2]

dal (first-person singular present daliaf)

1. (North Wales) to catch
2. (North Wales) to capture
3. (North Wales) to hold
4. to continue

• dala (South Wales)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dal

1. Soft mutation of tal.