sla

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine, uncountable) lettuce
2. (diminutive, especially, feminine, uncountable) salad

Verb

1. (first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular) inflection of slaan:
2. (form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular) inflection of slaan:
3. (form-of, imperative) inflection of slaan:
4. (dated, form-of, formal, present, singular, subjunctive) inflection of slaan:

slaan

1. (transitive) to hit, to slap
2. (transitive) to beat, overcome
3. (transitive) to strike
4. (intransitive) to pulse, beat
5. (transitive) to surround with
6. (intransitive) to suddenly start along (of movement), to turn
7. (transitive) to take one of your opponent's pieces

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Concepts

lettuce

salad

leaf lettuce

leaf salad

Synonyms

salade

kropsla

latuw

slaatje

slaplant

krulsla

Translations

laitue

Salat

Kopfsalat

alface

lattuga

lechuga

enciam

μαρούλι

Lattich

marul

ensalada

salade

lachuga

خس

Pronounced as (IPA)

/slaː/

Etymology

From earlier slae, slaê, with the first syllable reduced from earlier salae, salaê, it in turn being a reduced form of salade with regular loss of intervocalic -d- (as happened in words such as slee, broer, and teer). The semantic distinction between both forms is secondary.