dale

dale

See also: Dale and dále

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: dāl, IPA^(key): /deɪl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English dale, from Old English dæl, from Proto-Germanic *dalą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰol-.

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Doal, Dutch dal, German Low German Daal, German Tal, Swedish dal, Danish dal, Norwegian dal, Icelandic dalur.[1]

Noun

dale (plural dales)

1. (chiefly Britain) A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.

   Synonyms: dell, dells, vale

   • c. 1587, Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love:

     And we will all the pleasures prove / That hills and valleys, dales and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields

   • 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, OCLC 1380031, page 57:

     Five miles meandering with a mazy motion, / Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, / Then reached the caverns measureless to man, / And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: [...]

   • 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “The Clock House at Nuncombe Putney”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], OCLC 1118026626, page 113:

     The country about Nuncombe Putney is perhaps as pretty as any in England. It is beyond the river Teign, between that and Dartmoor, and is so lovely in all its variations of rivers, rivulets, broken ground, hills and dales, old broken, battered, time-worn timber, green knolls, rich pastures, and heathy common, that the wonder is that English lovers of scenery know so little of it.

   • 1908, Edmund Louis Gruber, The Caissons Go Rolling Along:

     Over hill, over dale / As we hit the dusty trail, / And those caissons go rolling along.

2. The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.

   Antonym: hill

Derived terms

• acre-dale
• Airedale
• Annandale
• Borrowdale
• Calderdale
• Castle Dale
• Chapel-le-Dale
• Clarksdale
• Cozaddale
• daleside
• Darley Dale
• Denby Dale
• Derbyshire Dales
• Eskdale
• Honesdale
• Limedale
• Lucedale
• Miller's Dale
• Monsal Dale
• Newton Dale
• Peak Dale
• Ribblesdale
• Riverdale
• Rochdale
• Sunningdale
• Swaledale
• Teesdale
• Tindall
• Tweeddale
• up hill and down dale
• Weardale
• Wensleydale
• Wharfedale

 

Related terms

• dollar

Translations

valley

Afrikaans: dal (af) Basque: ibar Bavarian: Thoi Belarusian: далі́на f (dalína) Bulgarian: долина (bg) f (dolina) Chamicuro: kajs̈hopi Chinese: Mandarin: 山谷 (zh) (shāngǔ) Danish: dal (da) c Dutch: dal (nl) n, vallei (nl) f Faroese: dalur m Finnish: laakso (fi) French: vallon (fr) m Galician: val m German: Tal (de) n Alemannic German: Dàl, Doal, Tau, Daal Rhine Franconian: Dahl (Palatine) Icelandic: dalur (is) m Italian: valle (it) f Japanese: 谷 (ja) (たに, tani) Limburgish: doal Luxembourgish: Dall (lb) m Middle English: dale Norwegian: dal (no) m Norwegian Nynorsk: dal m Pennsylvania German: Daal, Waelli Persian: دره‎ (fa) (dare) Polish: dolina (pl) Portuguese: vale (pt) m Russian: доли́на (ru) f (dolína) Serbo-Croatian: dol (sh), dolina (sh), udolina (sh) Slovene: dolína (sl) f Spanish: valle (es) m Swedish: dal (sv) c Turkish: vadi (tr) Ukrainian: доли́на f (dolýna) Welsh: dyffryn (cy), dôl

Etymology 2

Related to Low German daal or Dutch daal (“lowers, descends”) and French dalle (“trough; conduit”). Attested in English since the seventeenth century.[2]

Noun

dale (plural dales)

1. (archaic) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
   • 1853, John Fincham, An Outline of Ship Building in Four Parts‎, page 40:

     The pump-dale scupper is that to which the dale leads, that conveys the water from the pumps to the side on the lower deck of large ships.

References

1. Dale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
2. “dale, n.3”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

• ALDE, Adel, Deal, Dela, E.D. La., Lade, Leda, adle, deal, lade, lead

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Albanian

Alternative forms

• daleni (Plural)

Etymology 1

From dal (“I exit, go out”); see dal for more.

Interjection

dale

1. come out, get out (as a request, plea or as an order)

Etymology 2

Short form of ndal (“I halt, stop, rest, hold up”) (from n- +‎ dal). See ndal and dal for more.

Interjection

dale

1. wait, stay, hold up

   Synonym: ndal

2. don't hurry, relax, chill

Related terms

• dal (active)
• dalë (participle)
• dalë, dalë (i, e)
• dalë n, dalët n
• dalë f, dala f
• dalje f, dalja f
• ngadalë
• ngadalësi f, ngadalësia f
• ngadalësim m, ngadalësimi m
• ngadalësoj (active)
• ngadalësohet (passive)
• ngadalësuar (participle)
• ngadalshëm m, ngadalshme f
• dalëngadalë
• ndal (active)
• ndalem (passive)
• ndalur (participle)
• ndaloj (active)
• ndalohem (passive)
• ndaluar (participle)

 

Further reading

• interjection dale (dále) (plural daleni (dáleni)) • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)

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Danish

Etymology 1

See dal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daːlə/, [ˈd̥æːlə]

Noun

dale c

1. indefinite plural of dal

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German dalen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daːlə/, [ˈd̥æːlə]

Verb

dale (imperative dal, infinitive at dale, present tense daler, past tense dalede, perfect tense har dalet)

1. fall
2. descend
3. go down
4. sink
5. decrease
6. fall off
7. subside
8. decline

Antonyms

• stige

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

dale

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dalen

Anagrams

• adel, lade

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Gothic

Romanization

dale

1. Romanization of 𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌴

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• (Early ME) dæle, deale

Etymology

From Old English dæl, from Proto-Germanic *dala-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daːl/, /dɛːl/, /dal/

Noun

dale (plural dales)

1. A dale or valley.
2. (rare) A hole or barrow.

Declension

    Declension of dale

	Singular	Plural
nominative, accusative	dale	dales
genitive	dale	dales
dative	dale	dalen

Related terms

• dalke (probably)

Descendants

• English: dale
• Scots: dale, daal

References

• “dāle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdale/ [ˈd̪a.le]
• Rhymes: -ale
• Syllabification: da‧le

Interjection

dale

1. (Argentina) OK, okey dokey, right

   Synonyms: (Mexico) sale, vale

Derived terms

• dale que dale

Verb

dale

1. inflection of dar:
   1. second-person singular imperative combined with le
   2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with le

Further reading

• “dale”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Tagalog

Alternative forms

• dali

Etymology

Borrowing from Spanish dale.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: da‧le
• IPA^(key): /ˈdale/, [ˈda.le]

Noun

dale

1. unprovoked attack (verbal or physical)

   Synonyms: tira, sabak, banat

2. (colloquial) speaking out of turn

   Synonyms: satsat, daldal, tsismis

Derived terms

• dalihin
• dumale
• madale
• magdalihan

 

Interjection

dale

1. go ahead!; go on!

   Synonyms: sige, sulong

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Venetian

Adjective

dale f

1. feminine plural of dalo