different between murr vs sal

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: mûr, IPA^(key): /m??/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [m??(?)]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [m?]
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: murre, myrrh

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain. Perhaps imitative.

Noun

murr (plural murrs)

1. (obsolete) A catarrh. [from 15th–18th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.12:

     With them a Phthysique or consumption of the lungs is but an ordinary cough: A dysentery or bloody flux but a distemper of the stomacke; A pleurisie but a cold or murre; and as they gently name them so they easily endure them.

   • 1523, John Skelton, Garlande of Laurell

     The woodhack that singeth 'chur', / Hoarsely, as he had the murr [...]

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Noun

murr (plural murrs)

1. (onomatopoeia, colloquial, furry fandom) A purr (produced by any animal).
   • 2003 March 30, "NallTWD" (username), FUR: "Boston Blues" (M/F- Lions), in fur.stories.erotica, Usenet:

     Raion let out a contented murr, […]

   • 2004, "Claudia" (username), STORY: The Three Sisters, part 8 ( Transform, Girl into Horse ), in alt.sex.stories, Usenet:

     Cathy rroww'ed like a cat in heat as her tom mated her, her breasts pressed deeply into the mattress, orgasming with a contented murr as the tom fertilized her […]

   • 2007, Teiran, The Hero, page 150:

     The hyena let out a soft murr as the fox's paw gently rubbing in small circles across his forehead and down his neck. The gentle scratching felt good, so the hyena leaned into the paw.

Verb

murr (third-person singular simple present murrs, present participle murring, simple past and past participle murred)

1. (onomatopoeia, colloquial, of a person or animal, especially furry fandom) To purr.
   • 1989, Dawn Borrelli, Kate, page 101:

     The cat murred and purred and tried to lick his face and David was filled with such happiness. All the doubts and misgivings of the past few hours fled and all that he knew was that Kate, his love and his life, was back with him.

   • 1995 January 5, "Anne-Lise Pasch" (username), STORY: Retribution, in alt.fan.furry, Usenet:

     She murred in satisfaction.

   • 2002, September 2, "sahd_ryoken" (username), *murrs* no shirt, jean shorts, and one hot dragon, in alt.fan.dragons, Usenet

Adjective

murr

1. (slang, of a person or animal, furry fandom) Having sexual appeal, sexy.
   • 2002 November 14, "Khaki Wolf" (username), FUR Genengineering Tank (M/ Direwolf) - garmtank_work.jpg (1/1), in fur.artwork.erotica, Usenet:

     Nice picture. I love the details on everything, and the shading is wonderful. He's very murr.

   • 2002 November 3, "Lukos", in FuRe: Jay (Male/Tame/Fanart), in fur.artwork.erotica, Usenet:

     Yew rox0rs....p.b. and Jay are murr. DO P.B.!

     Lukos

     "Darkan" […] wrote in message […]

     > A little fanart of Jay from Daria McGrain's 'Genus Male' comic. I like P.B.

     > better tho, and will draw him soon.

   • 2003 October 12, "Darkone" (username), Fur: Teeming with Vermin(m/2 pics/not really tame), in fur.artwork.erotica, Usenet:

     Great pics, very murr :)

German

Pronunciation

Verb

murr

1. singular imperative of murren
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of murren

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sal, from Latin sal. Doublet of salt.

Noun

sal (uncountable)

1. (chemistry, obsolete) salt

Usage notes

Was used predominantly to form the names of various chemical compounds.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Hindi ??? (s?l), from Sanskrit ??? (??la).

Alternative forms

• saul, shala

Noun

sal (plural sals)

1. Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree.

Translations

Anagrams

• ALS, ALs, ASL, LAs, LSA, SLA, a/s/l, al's, als, asl, las

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zal, singular of zullen, from Middle Dutch sullen, from Old Dutch *sulan, from Proto-West Germanic *skulan, from Proto-Germanic *skulan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sal/

Verb

sal (present sal, past sou)

1. shall, will

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin sal

Noun

sal f

1. salt

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) , “sal”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ?ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin s?l, salem.

Noun

sal m (plural sales)

1. salt

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s??]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *s?l.

Noun

sal (definite accusative sal?, plural sallar)

1. raft (wooden)

Etymology 2

Likely from Proto-Turkic *sal- (“throw, lower, put; heavy”); see Azerbaijani salmaq.

Noun

sal (definite accusative sal?, plural sallar)

1. monolith (a large, single block of stone)

Declension

Adjective

sal

1. whole, unbroken, of one piece

Further reading

• “sal” in Obastan.com.

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan sal, from Latin s?l, salem, from Proto-Indo-European *seh?l-.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sal/

Noun

sal f (plural sals)

1. salt

Related terms

• salar

Further reading

• “sal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chairel

Noun

sal

1. sun

References

• W. McCulloch, Account of the Valley of Munnipore and of the Hill tribes with a comparative vocabulary of the Munnipore and other languages (1859, Calcutta: Bengal Printing Company)

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish sal (“salt”).

Noun

sal

1. salt

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse salr, from Proto-Germanic *saliz, cognate with German Saal, Dutch zaal. The Germanic word was borrowed to French salon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sæ?l]

Noun

sal c (singular definite salen, plural indefinite sale)

1. hall, room
2. floor (storey of a building)

   Synonym: etage

Declension

Derived terms

• retssal

Further reading

• “sal” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “sal” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Esperanto

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sal/

Interjection

sal

1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of saluton (“hello”).

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

From Latin s?l, salem.

Pronunciation

Noun

sal f

1. salt

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese sal, from Latin s?l, salem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s?al]

Noun

sal m (plural sales)

1. salt

Derived terms

• saleiro

Related terms

• As Saíñas

References

• “sal” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “sal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “sal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “sal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “sal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Garo

Etymology

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

Noun

sal

1. sun, day, daytime
2. a 24 hour period
3. weather
4. classifier for days

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese sal. Cognate with Kabuverdianu sal.

Noun

sal

1. salt

Icelandic

Noun

sal

1. indefinite accusative singular of salur
2. indefinite dative singular of salur

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch zaal, from Middle Dutch sale, from Old Dutch sala, from Proto-West Germanic *sali, from Proto-Germanic *saliz, from Proto-Indo-European *sol-, *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”). Cognate of Afrikaans saal (“hall, large room”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sal/

Noun

sal (first-person possessive salku, second-person possessive salmu, third-person possessive salnya)

1. a large room, hall
2. (healthcare, medicine) ward

Synonyms

• bangsal

Further reading

• “sal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Noun

sal (plural sales)

1. salt (substance consisting of positive and negative ions)

Related terms

• salin

Irish

Noun

sal f (genitive singular saile) or
sal m (genitive singular sail)

1. Alternative form of sail (“dirt; stain”)

Declension

As masculine first-declension noun:

As feminine second-declension noun:

Mutation

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin s?l, salem.

Noun

sal

1. salt

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese sal.

Noun

sal

1. salt

Proper noun

sal

1. (Sal) Sal
2. One of the ten islands of Cape Verde

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *s?ls, from Proto-Indo-European *séh?ls.

Cognates include Sanskrit ?? (sará), Old Armenian ?? (a?), Ancient Greek ??? (háls), Tocharian A s?le, and Old English sealt (English salt).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sa?l/, [s?ä???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sal/, [s?l]

Noun

s?l m or n (genitive salis); third declension

1. salt

2. (figuratively) wit
3. (poetic) brine, salt water, the sea

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Usage notes

• S?l is occasionally found as a neuter noun in the singular. The gender is observable only from agreement in the nominative case, and from agreement and the use of s?l (neuter) vs. salem (masculine) in the accusative case. The neuter nominative and accusative singular form can alternatively be sale, e.g. in Ennius Ann. 385 and Varro d. Non. 223, 17. In the nominative and accusative plural, the word is found only in the masculine gender, with the form sal?s.

Derived terms

• sal?
• sali?
• s?l petrae (stone salt; that is, found as an incrustation)

Descendants

References

• sal in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sal in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sal in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle Dutch

Verb

sal

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of sullen

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??l/

Noun

sal f

1. year

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse salr.

Noun

sal m (definite singular salen, indefinite plural saler, definite plural salene)

1. a large room in which parties and meetings and similar are held; a hall.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse s?ðull.

Alternative forms

• sadel

Noun

sal m (definite singular salen, indefinite plural saler, definite plural salene)

1. saddle

Etymology 3

From Old Norse sal.

Noun

sal n

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1981; superseded by salg

References

• “sal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??l/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse salr, from Proto-Germanic *saliz.

Noun

sal m (definite singular salen, indefinite plural salar, definite plural salane)

1. a large room in which parties and meetings and similar are held; a hall

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse s?ðull, from Proto-Germanic *sadulaz.

Noun

sal m (definite singular salen, indefinite plural salar, definite plural salane)

1. a saddle

Related terms

• sala, sale

Etymology 3

From Old Norse sal (“payment”).

Noun

sal n (definite singular salet, indefinite plural sal, definite plural sala)

1. a sale

Related terms

• selja, selje
• marknad

References

• “sal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• als-, las, sla

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sail, from Proto-Germanic *sail? (“rope”).

Cognate with Old Saxon s?l (Dutch zeel), Old High German seil (German Seil).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??l/

Noun

s?l m

1. rope, cord, rein

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle English: sal, sole, soole
  • Scots: sale, saill, saile, seill, seale
  • English: sole

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sal?.

Noun

sal f (genitive saile)

1. dirt
2. filth, stain
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 92^d12

Inflection

Related terms

• salach

Descendants

• Irish: sail
• Scottish Gaelic: sal

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “sal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin salem, accusative of s?l.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sal]

Noun

sal f (plural sales)

1. salt
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 61r.

     Et ?u ?priedat es de aborrecer la ?al tanto que bié parece que a entramas grand enemiztat. ca ?i las ponen en uno. quiebra la piedra ¬ mueles; ¬ la ?al pierde la ?algadumbre que a en ella.

     And its property is that it loathes salt so much that it would seem that there is a great enmity between them both, for if they are placed together, the stone breaks, and the salt loses all the saltiness within.

Related terms

• salado
• salgadumbre
• salgadura

Descendants

• Spanish: sal

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin s?l, salem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sal/

Noun

sal m or f

1. salt

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: sal

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese sal, from Latin s?l, salem (“salt, wit”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh?l- (“salt”).

Noun

sal m (plural sais)

1. salt (sodium chloride, a substance used as a condiment and preservative)

   Synonyms: cloreto de sódio, sal de cozinha

2. (chemistry) salt (any compound formed from the reaction of an acid with a base)
3. (usually in the plural) bath salt (any of several inorganic salts sometimes added to bath water)

   Synonym: sal de banho

4. (figuratively) wit; the quality of being engaging

   Synonym: graça

Derived terms

• salzinho (diminutive)

Related terms

Etymology 2

Noun

sal m (plural sais)

1. (rare) sal (Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree)

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• ????????????????? (sal) – Hanifi Rohingya script

Noun

sal (Hanifi spelling ????????????????)

1. roof

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (Turkish ?al, from Persian ???? (š?l).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sal/

Noun

sal n (plural saluri)

1. (rare) shawl, scarf

   Synonym: ?al

Etymology 2

Shortened form of salut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa(?)l/

Interjection

sal!

1. (informal) hey!
2. (informal) bye!

Synonyms

• salut (1, 2)
• pa (2)

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Puter) sel

Etymology

From Latin s?l, salem., from Proto-Indo-European *séh?ls.

Noun

sal m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) salt

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sal/, [?sal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: sal

From Old Spanish sal, from Latin s?l, salem (compare Catalan sal f, French sel m, Italian sale m, Portuguese sal m, Romanian sare f), from Proto-Indo-European *seh?l-, a root shared by English salt. It is not known how the noun became feminine.

Noun

sal f (plural sales)

1. salt; table salt

   Synonyms: sal común, sal de mesa

2. (chemistry) salt

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

sal

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of salir.

Further reading

• “sal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse salr, from Proto-Germanic *saliz, from Proto-Indo-European *sol-, *sel-.

Pronunciation

Noun

sal c

1. a large room (for dining or meetings)

Declension

Related terms

• hörsal
• läsesal
• matsal

Further reading

• sal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Anagrams

• als

Tocharian B

Adjective

sal

1. dirty

Turkish

Etymology 1

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

Noun

sal (definite accusative sal?, plural sallar)

1. raft

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish ??? (sal, sel), from Arabic ?????? (salla, “to draw, to unsheathe”).

Verb

sal

1. second-person singular imperative of salmak

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) , “sal”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2647

Venetian

Alternative forms

• sale

Etymology

From Latin s?l, salem.

Noun

sal m (plural sa?i)

1. salt (sodium chloride, non-chemical usage)

sal m (plural sali)

1. (chemistry) salt

Volapük

Noun

sal (nominative plural sals)

1. salt

Declension