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dale

See also: Dale, dalë, dále, and d-ale

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English dale, from Old English dæl, from Proto-West Germanic *dal, from Proto-Germanic *dalą.

Noun

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dale (plural dales)

  1. (chiefly British, slightly dated outside Yorkshire etc.) 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, 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, 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
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Etymology 2

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Related to Low German daal or Dutch daal (“lowers, descends”) and French dalle (“trough; conduit”). Attested in English since the seventeenth century.[1]

Noun

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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[1], 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.

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  1. ^ “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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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

Interjection

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dale

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

Etymology 2

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

Interjection

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dale

  1. wait, stay, hold up
    Synonym: ndal
  2. don't hurry, relax, chill
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Further reading

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

Danish

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Etymology 1

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See dal.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /daːlə/, [ˈd̥æːlə]

Noun

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dale c

  1. indefinite plural of dal

Etymology 2

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From Middle Low German dalen.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /daːlə/, [ˈd̥æːlə]

Verb

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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
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Dutch

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dale

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of dalen

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Gothic

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Romanization

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dale

  1. Romanization of 𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌴

Middle English

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Etymology

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From Old English dæl, from Proto-West Germanic *dal.

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  • IPA(key): /daːl/, /dɛːl/, /dal/

Noun

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dale (plural dales)

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

Declension

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    Declension of dale
Singular Plural
nominative, accusative dale dales
genitive dale dales
dative dale dalen
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Descendants

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  • English: dale
  • Scots: dale, daal

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Mogum

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Noun

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dale

  1. daughter

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Spanish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Interjection

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dale

  1. (Argentina) OK, okey dokey, right
    Synonyms: vale, (Mexico) sale, okey

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Verb

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dale

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

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish dale.

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Noun

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dale (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜎᜒ)

  1. unprovoked attack (verbal or physical)
    Synonyms: tira, sabak, banat
  2. (colloquial) speaking out of turn
    Synonyms: satsat, daldal, tsismis

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Interjection

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dale (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜎᜒ)

  1. go ahead!; go on!
    Synonyms: sige, sulong

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Venetian

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Adjective

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dale f

  1. feminine plural of dalo
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