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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
Noun
A 17th century salon
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.
A beauty salon or similar establishment .
Derived terms
Translations
large room
Albanian: sallë (sq) f , sallon (sq) m
Arabic: صَالُون m ( ṣālūn ) , صَالَة f ( ṣāla ) , قَاعَة f ( qāʕa )
Armenian: սրահ (hy) ( srah )
Belarusian: сало́н m ( salón ) , зал m ( zal )
Bulgarian: сало́н (bg) m ( salón ) , за́ла (bg) f ( zála )
Catalan: saló (ca) m , sala (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 沙龍 / 沙龙 (zh) ( shālóng ) , 大廳 / 大厅 (zh) ( dàtīng )
Dutch: zaal (nl) m
Finnish: salonki (fi) , seurusteluhuone (fi)
French: salon (fr) m
Georgian: სალონი ( saloni ) , დარბაზი (ka) ( darbazi ) , სასტუმრო ოთახი ( sasṭumro otaxi ) , ზალა (ka) ( zala ) ( colloquial )
German: Salon (de) m , Halle (de) f , Saal (de) m
Greek: σαλόνι (el) n ( salóni )
Hebrew: סלון (he) m ( salón )
Hindi: सैलून ( sailūn ) , सलोन ( salon )
Hungarian: szalon (hu)
Italian: salone (it) m , sala (it) f
Japanese: サロン (ja) ( saron )
Korean: 살롱 ( sallong )
Occitan: selon (oc)
Persian: سالن (fa) ( sâlon ) , تالار (fa) ( tâlâr )
Polish: salon (pl) m , sala (pl) f
Portuguese: salão (pt) m
Russian: сало́н (ru) m ( salón ) , гости́ная (ru) f ( gostínaja ) , зал (ru) m ( zal )
Spanish: salón (es) m , sala (es) f
Swedish: salong (sv)
Tajik: зал ( zal ) , толор (tg) ( tolor )
Turkish: salon (tr) , odalak
Ukrainian: сало́н (uk) m ( salón ) , зал m ( zal )
Translations to be checked
See also
Anagrams
Bikol Central
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /saˈlon/
Hyphenation: sa‧lon
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Spanish salón .
Noun
salón (Basahan spelling ᜐᜎᜓᜈ᜔ ) ( obsolete )
a ballroom ; a large room used for dancing and banquets
a cabaret
Synonym: kabaret
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English salon .
Noun
salón (Basahan spelling ᜐᜎᜓᜈ᜔ )
a beauty salon
Synonyms: pabulogan , patusaran , paguntingan , pagupitan
See also
Cebuano
Pronunciation
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/
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
Descendants
Esperanto
Noun
salon
accusative singular of salo
Finnish
Etymology 1
Noun
salon
genitive singular of salo
Etymology 2
Noun
salon
genitive singular of salko
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited 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
Noun
salon m (plural salons )
living room
salon
show ( exhibition of items ) , exhibition ( large-scale public showing of objects or products )
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
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
Noun
salon
salon ,
A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
A beauty salon or similar establishment.
Further reading
Interlingua
Pronunciation
Noun
salon (plural salones )
sitting room , living room
Norman
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium .)
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/
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
Derived terms
Further reading
salon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
salon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French salon .
Pronunciation
Noun
salon n (plural saloane )
living room
salon
Declension
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
References
“salon ”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal ] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish صالون ( salon ) , from French salon .
Pronunciation
Noun
salon (definite accusative salonu , plural salonlar )
living room
shop , store
Declension
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