salon

See also: saloon, Salon, salón, ŝalon, and sal-on

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).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /səˈlɒn/, /ˈsælɒn/
  • (file)

Noun

A 17th century salon

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.
    • 1933, Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas:
      Matisse showed in every autumn salon and every independent. He was beginning to have a considerable following. Picasso, on the contrary, never in all his life has shown in any salon. His pictures at that time could really only be seen at 27 rue de Fleurus.
  4. A beauty salon or similar establishment.

Derived terms

Translations

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See also

Anagrams


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, 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).

Noun

salon

  1. a beauty salon

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French salon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saːˈlɔn/
  • (file)
  • 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


Esperanto

Noun

salon

  1. accusative singular of salo

Finnish

Etymology 1

Noun

salon

  1. Genitive singular form of salo.

Etymology 2

Noun

salon

  1. Genitive singular form of salko.

Anagrams


French

Etymology

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/
  • (file)
  • (file)

Noun

salon m (plural salons)

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

Further reading


Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saˈlon/

Noun

salon (plural salones)

  1. sitting room, living room

Norman

Etymology

Noun

salon m (plural salons)

  1. (Jersey) drawing room

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsa.lɔn/
  • (file)

Noun

salon m inan

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

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 salonbarbershop
    krojački salontailor shop

Declension

References

  • salon” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French salon.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: sa‧lon

Noun

salon (definite accusative salonu, plural salonlar)

  1. living room
  2. shop, store

Declension

Inflection
Nominative salon
Definite accusative salonu
Singular Plural
Nominative salon salonlar
Definite accusative salonu salonları
Dative salona salonlara
Locative salonda salonlarda
Ablative salondan salonlardan
Genitive salonun salonların
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular salonum salonlarım
2nd singular salonun salonların
3rd singular salonu salonları
1st plural salonumuz salonlarımız
2nd plural salonunuz salonlarınız
3rd plural salonları salonları

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • (shop): güzellik salonu
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