salon
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”). Doublet of saloon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /səˈlɒn/, /ˈsælɒn/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
salon (plural salons)
- A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
- Synonyms: hall, lounge, parlor, guest room
- A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting.
- Synonyms: circle, cenacle
- (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.
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- A beauty salon or similar establishment.
Derived terms
- beauty salon
- hairdressing salon
- hair salon
- literary salon
- tanning salon
Related terms
- salonnière
Translations
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See also
- cabinet
Anagrams
- Nolas, Nosal, Sloan, Solan, Sơn La, loans, lonas, solan
Bikol Central
Etymology 1
From Spanish salón.
Noun
salon
- (obsolete) a ballroom; a large room used for dancing and banquets
- (obsolete) a cabaret
Etymology 2
From English salon.
Noun
salon
- a beauty salon
- Synonym: patusaran
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sa‧lon
Etymology 1
From Spanish salón.
Noun
salon
- (obsolete) a ballroom; a large room used for dancing and banquets
Etymology 2
From English salon.
Noun
salon
- a beauty salon
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French salon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /saːˈlɔn/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: sa‧lon
- Rhymes: -ɔn
Noun
salon m or n (plural salons, diminutive salonnetje n)
- salon, room for receiving guests
- pub, café or restaurant (often posh or trendy, or in a French context)
Derived terms
- haarsalon
- ijssalon
- kapsalon
- koffiesalon
- nagelsalon
- salonblad
- salonpopulist
- salonsocialisme
- salonsocialist
- salonsocialistisch
- salonstuk
- salontafel
- schoonheidssalon
- theesalon
Related terms
- salet
- zaal
Descendants
- Afrikaans: salon
- → Indonesian: salon
- → Papiamentu: salòn
Esperanto
Noun
salon
- accusative singular of salo
Finnish
Noun
salon
- genitive singular of salo
Noun
salon
- genitive singular of salko
Anagrams
- solan
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/
Audio (file) Audio (file)
Noun
salon m (plural salons)
- living room
- salon
- show (exhibition of items), exhibition (large-scale public showing of objects or products)
Derived terms
- salon de beauté
- salon de coiffure
- Salon des Refusés
- salon de thé
Descendants
- → Arabic: صالون
- → Catalan: saló
- → Dutch: salon
- → English: salon, saloon
- → Russian: салун (salun)
- → Estonian: salong
- → German: Salon
- → Hungarian: szalon
- → Norwegian Bokmål: salong
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: salong
- → Polish: salon
- → Romansch: salun
- → Serbo-Croatian: sàlōn, са̀ло̄н
- → Swedish: salong
- → Turkish: salon
Further reading
- “salon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch salon, from French salon, 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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsalɔn]
- Hyphenation: sa‧lon
Noun
salon (first-person possessive salonku, second-person possessive salonmu, third-person possessive salonnya)
- salon,
- A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
- A beauty salon or similar establishment.
Further reading
- “salon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /saˈlon/
Noun
salon (plural salones)
- sitting room, living room
Norman
Etymology
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Noun
salon m (plural salons)
- (Jersey) drawing room
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from French salon, 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”). Possibly a doublet of sioło.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsa.lɔn/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -alɔn
- Syllabification: sa‧lon
Noun
salon m inan (diminutive salonik)
- living room
- Synonyms: (archaic) bawialka, (archaic) bawialnia
- any large room
- service point, shop, store, parlor (used especially for shops in a shopping center)
- Synonym: studio
- exhibition, show
- (derogatory, politics, singular only) ruling class, the elite, the establishment
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | salon | salony |
genitive | salonu | salonów |
dative | salonowi | salonom |
accusative | salon | salony |
instrumental | salonem | salonami |
locative | salonie | salonach |
vocative | salonie | salony |
Derived terms
- salonowy
- salon gry
- salonka
- salon piękności
Related terms
- salonowo
- salonowiec
- salonowość
Further reading
- salon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- salon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From French salon.
Noun
salon n (plural saloane)
- living room
- salon
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) salon | salonul | (niște) saloane | saloanele |
genitive/dative | (unui) salon | salonului | (unor) saloane | saloanelor |
vocative | salonule | saloanelor |
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From French salon, from Italian salone.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sǎloːn/
- Hyphenation: sa‧lon
Noun
sàlōn m (Cyrillic spelling са̀ло̄н)
- living room
- parlor (room for lounging)
- gallery (institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art)
- gallery (establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art)
- shop (hairdresser, tailor, massage etc.)
- frizerski salon ― barbershop
- krojački salon ― tailor shop
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | sàlōn | saloni |
genitive | salóna | salona |
dative | salonu | salonima |
accusative | salon | salone |
vocative | salone | saloni |
locative | salonu | salonima |
instrumental | salonom | salonima |
References
- “salon” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish صالون (salon), from French salon.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sa‧lon
Noun
salon (definite accusative salonu, plural salonlar)
- living room
- shop, store
Declension
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Nominative | salon | salonlar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dative | salona | salonlara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | salonda | salonlarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | salondan | salonlardan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms
- (living room): oturma odası
Derived terms
- (shop): güzellik salonu
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “صالون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 751
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “salon”, in Nişanyan Sözlük