FromMiddle Englishdale, fromOld Englishdæl, fromProto-West Germanic*dal, fromProto-Germanic*dalą.
dale (pluraldales)
- (chiefly British, slightly dated outside Yorkshire etc.) Avalley, often in an otherwisehillyarea.
- Synonyms:dell,dells,vale
1797,S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, inChristabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], byWilliam Bulmer and Co. […], published1816,→OCLC,page57:Five miles meandering with a mazy motion, / Through wood anddale 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”, inHe Knew He Was Right, volume I, London:Strahan and Company, […],→OCLC,page113: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 anddales, 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, overdale / As we hit the dusty trail, / And those caissons go rolling along.
- The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of avinyl record.
- Antonym:hill
valley
- Afrikaans:dal (af)
- Arabic:ثَنِيَّة f(ṯaniyya)
- Basque:ibar
- Bavarian:Thoi
- Belarusian:далі́на f(dalína)
- Bulgarian:долина (bg) f(dolina)
- Chamicuro:kajs̈hopi
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:山谷 (zh)(shāngǔ)
- Czech:údolí (cs) n,dol m
- Danish:dal (da) c
- Dutch:dal (nl) n,vallei (nl) f
- Faroese:dalur m
- Finnish:laakso (fi)
- French:vallon (fr) m
- Galician:val (gl) 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
- Ottoman Turkish:دره(dere)
- 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
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Related toLow Germandaal orDutchdaal(“lowers, descends”) andFrenchdalle(“trough; conduit”). Attested in English since the seventeenth century.[1]
dale (pluraldales)
- (archaic) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
1853, John Fincham,An Outline of Ship Building in Four Parts[1], page40:The pump-dale scupper is that to which thedale leads, that conveys the water from the pumps to the side on the lower deck of large ships.
- ALDE,Adel,Deal,Dela,E.D. La.,Lade,Leda,adle,deal,lade,lead
Short form ofndal(“I halt, stop, rest, hold up”). Seendal anddal for more.
dale
- wait,stay,hold up
- Synonym:ndal
- don'thurry,relax,chill
- [2] interjectiondale (dále) (pluraldaleni (dáleni)) • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)
Seedal.
dale c
- indefiniteplural ofdal
FromMiddle Low Germandalen.
dale (imperativedal,infinitiveatdale,present tensedaler,past tensedalede,perfect tensehardalet)
- fall
- descend
- go down
- sink
- decrease
- fall off
- subside
- decline
dale
- (dated or formal)singularpresentsubjunctive ofdalen
dale
- romanization of𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌴
FromOld Englishdæl, fromProto-West Germanic*dal.
dale (pluraldales)
- Adale orvalley.
- (rare) A hole or barrow.
2Only found in Early Middle English and optional there.
dale
- daughter
dale
- inflection ofdeal:
- strongaccusativefemininesingular
- stronginstrumentalmasculine/neutersingular
- strongnominative/accusativemasculine/feminineplural
- weaknominativefeminine/neutersingular
- weakaccusativeneutersingular
From acompound ofda(“give!”,2nd-person singular imperative) +le(“to him/her/it/them/you(formal)”,3rd-person dative pronoun). CompareItaliandaje.
- IPA(key): /ˈdale/[ˈd̪a.le]
- Rhymes:-ale
- Syllabification:da‧le
dale
- (Argentina)OK,okey dokey,right
- Synonyms:vale,(Mexico)sale,okey
- (Latin America)do it,get it, "give it",go ahead,go for it,go on,hit it
- Synonyms:(Mexico)ándale,go on,dale que dale,que patatín que patatán,que si patatín que si patatán
dale
- inflection ofdar:
- second-personsingularimperative combined withle
- second-personsingular voseoimperative combined withle
Borrowed fromSpanishdale.
dale (Baybayin spellingᜇᜎᜒ)
- unprovokedattack(verbal or physical)
- Synonyms:tira,sabak,banat
- (colloquial)speakingout of turn
- Synonyms:satsat,daldal,tsismis
dale (Baybayin spellingᜇᜎᜒ)
- go ahead!;go on!
- Synonyms:sige,sulong
dale f
- feminineplural ofdalo
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