zaal

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zaːl/
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  • Hyphenation: zaal
  • Rhymes: -aːl

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch sale, from Old Dutch sala, from Proto-West Germanic *sali, from Proto-Germanic *saliz.

Noun

zaal f (plural zalen, diminutive zaaltje n)

  1. room, hall
  2. ward in a hospital or similar medical or caregiving institute
  3. (historical) Germanic single-room home
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Descendants
  • Afrikaans: saal
  • Negerhollands: saal, sael
  • → Caribbean Javanese: sal
  • → Indonesian: sal

Etymology 2

Noun

zaal n (plural zaals)

  1. (dialectal) Archaic form of zadel.
    • 1829, Carl Spindler, De jezuit; een zedekundig tafereel uit den aanvang der achttiende eeuw, Volume 2, tr. from High German, de erven François Bohn (publ.), page 179.
      […] hij valt, en wordt een prooi van den overwinnaar, die hem de veren uittrekt, er het zaal van zijn paard mede ver/iert, en lagchend met zijne vrienden de vlakte oprent.
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Further reading

  • “zaal” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie.
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