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English

Alternative forms

• eale (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ale, from Old English ealu, ealo, from Proto-West Germanic *alu, from Proto-Germanic *alu (compare Dutch aal, Swedish öl), from Proto-Indo-European *h?elut- (“beer”), or *h?elu- (“bitter”). Compare Russian ?? (ol), Lithuanian alùs, Armenian ??? (??i); compare also Latin alum (“comfrey”), al?ta (“tawed leather”), Ancient Greek ????????? (alúdoimos, “bitter”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /e?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Noun

ale (countable and uncountable, plural ales)

1. (dated) A beer made without hops.
2. A beer produced by so-called warm fermentation and not pressurized.
3. A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.

Synonyms

• (liquor): beer (loosely), yill

Derived terms

• alewife
• brown ale
• cakes and ale
• ginger ale
• India pale ale
• pale ale
• real ale

Related terms

• alehouse
• bridal
• gruit

Translations

Descendants

• ? Dutch: ale
• ? Finnish: ale
• ? French: ale

Anagrams

• E-la, EAL, ELA, Ela, LAE, LEA, Lea, ael, lea

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??le/

Interjection

alé

1. signifies surprise; wow!

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Bambara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [àle]

Pronoun

ale

1. him

Basque

Noun

ale

1. grain

Declension

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al?/
• Rhymes: -al?

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *a le, from Proto-Indo-European *ályos.

Conjunction

ale

1. but

   Synonym: avšak

See also

• jenže

Further reading

• ale in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• ale in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English ale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?l/
• Hyphenation: ale
• Rhymes: -e?l

Noun

ale m or n (uncountable)

1. ale

Estonian

Etymology

Cognate to Finnish halme and Livvi halmeh. From either Proto-Germanic *halmaz or a Baltic language, compare Lithuanian salms and Latvian želmuo.

Noun

ale (genitive ale, partitive alet)

1. slash-and-burn (the technique)
2. the forest cut down to create new land in slash-and-burn
3. the land created through slash-and-burn

Declension

Finnish

Etymology 1

< alennusmyynti (“sale”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??le/, [??le?]
• Rhymes: -?le
• Syllabification: a?le

Noun

ale

1. (colloquial) sale (selling of goods at bargain prices)

Declension

Compounds

• alehalli
• alehinta

Etymology 2

From English ale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ei?l/, [?e?i?l]
• Syllabification: ale

Noun

ale

1. ale (type of beer)

Declension

In speech, type 5 (risti) is normally used, giving for instance nominative singular eil, genitive eilin, partitive eiliä, nominative plural eilit and genitive plural eilien.

Anagrams

• Lea

French

Etymology

From English ale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l/

Noun

ale f (plural ales)

1. ale
   • 1884, Joris-Karl Huysmans, À rebours, XI:

     il mangea un rosbif aux pommes et s'enfourna deux pintes d’ale, excité par ce petit goût de vacherie musquée que dégage cette fine et pâle bière.

     He ate roast beef with apples and put away two pints of ale, excited by the little taste of musky trickery given off by this fine, pale beer.

Further reading

• “ale” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin ?la.

Noun

ale f (plural alis)

1. wing

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French aller (“go”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.le/

Verb

ale

1. go

   Synonym: al

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.le/
• Hyphenation: à?le

Noun

ale f

1. (poetic) plural of ala; wings.

See also

• ali

Latin

Verb

ale

1. second-person singular present active imperative of al?

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?al?/, [?al?]

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *a le, from Proto-Indo-European *ályos.

Conjunction

ale

1. but

Further reading

• ale in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• ale in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Lule Sami

Verb

ale

1. second-person singular imperative of ij

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French aller.

Verb

ale (medial form al)

1. To go

Middle Dutch

Etymology

from Old Dutch *alo, from Proto-West Germanic *alu.

Noun

?le n

1. ale

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: aal
• Limburgish: aal

Further reading

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “ale”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ail

Etymology

From Old English ealu, from Proto-West Germanic *alu, from Proto-Germanic *alu, from Proto-Indo-European *h?elut-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?l(?)/

Noun

ale (plural ales)

1. ale (beverage)

Related terms

• bridale

Descendants

• English: ale
• Scots: yill, ale, aill, ayll

References

• “?le, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?ale/

Verb

ale

1. second-person singular imperative of ii

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

ale (present tense el or aler, past tense ol or alte, supine ale or alt, past participle alen or alt, present participle alande, imperative al)

1. Alternative form of ala

Anagrams

• ela, lea

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *a le, from Proto-Indo-European *ályos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.l?/
• Homophones: Ale, Al?

Conjunction

ale

1. but

Particle

ale

1. (colloquial) used at the beginning of sentence for emphasis

2. used at the beginning of sentence similar to English "hey, not so fast", especially when used multiple times

Further reading

• ale in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• ale in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Verb

ale

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of alar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of alar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of alar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of alar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.le/

Article

ale

1. of (feminine/neuter plural possessive article)

See also

• al (masculine/neuter singular)
• a (feminine singular)
• ai (masculine plural)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *a li, *a le.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /âle/
• Hyphenation: a?le

Conjunction

?le (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (Kajkavian) but
2. (Kajkavian) however

Synonyms

• ali

Spanish

Etymology

From English ale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?eil/, [?ei?l]

Noun

ale f (plural ales)

1. ale (intoxicating liquor)

Tagalog

Noun

ale

1. stepmother
2. aunt

References

• The Tagalog Pinoy Dictionary

Tarantino

Noun

ale

1. wing (of a bird etc)

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *a le, from Proto-Indo-European *ályos.

Conjunction

ale

1. but

English

Etymology

Probably a- +? be.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??bi/

Verb

abe

1. (intransitive, infinitive, Britain, uncommon) To be.
   • 1839, The New Monthly Magazine, volume 1, page 527:

     Let it abe, I say.

References

• Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], ?ISBN), page 3

Anagrams

• AEB, BAe, BEA, Bae, Bea, EAB, aeb, bae, eba

Abinomn

Noun

abe

1. elder sister

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??be/
• Hyphenation: a?be

Verb

abé

1. (transitive) do
2. (transitive) make
3. (transitive) operate
4. (transitive) execute

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985) , “abe”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, ?ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[3], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Albanian

Etymology

Possibly related to avë.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a?b?]

Noun

abe f (indefinite plural abe, definite singular abeja, definite plural abet)

1. shadow
2. (regional) spectre, phantasm
3. (regional) gracefulness
4. (colloquial) alphabet

Further reading

• Oda Buchholz, Wilfried Fiedler, Gerda Uhlisch (2000) Langenscheidt Handwörterbuch Albanisch, Langenscheidt Verlag, ?ISBN, page 27 (abé)

Cimbrian

Etymology

The sense “south” may be reinforced by or a semantic loan from Venetian: vago zò a Roma (“I go south to Rome”, literally “I go down to Rome”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Adverb

abe (Sette Comuni)

1. down
2. south, down south

Synonyms

• abar, iidar

Antonyms

• au

Derived terms

• denaabe

References

• “abe” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?b?/, [?æ?b??]
• Rhymes: -a?b?

Etymology 1

From Old Norse api (“fool”).

Noun

abe c (singular definite aben, plural indefinite aber)

1. monkey
2. ape

Inflection

Synonyms

• abekat

Derived terms

• fjeldabe

Etymology 2

From Old Norse apa, from api (“fool”).

Verb

abe (imperative ab, infinitive at abe, present tense aber, past tense abede, perfect tense har abet)

1. mimic, ape

Synonyms

• abe efter
• efterabe

Kom (Cameroon)

Adverb

abe

1. outside (of)

References

• Randy Jones, Provisional Kom - English lexicon (2001, Yaoundé, Cameroon)

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.be/

Verb

abe

1. may (to be allowed)

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[4], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Lun Bawang

Noun

abe

1. earring.

See also

• abey

Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin avis, avem (“bird”), from Proto-Italic *awis (“bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?éwis (“bird”).

Noun

abe f (plural abes)

1. bird

Picard

Etymology

From Old French arbre.

Noun

abe m (plural abes)

1. tree

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin apis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.b?/, [?a????]

Noun

abe f (plural abes)

1. bee

Further reading

• Abe on the Sardinian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sc

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??bi?/

Verb

abe (third-person singular present abes, present participle abein, past abet, past participle abet)

1. to let alone, let be, leave undisturbed

References

• Andy Eagle, ed., (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.