dale

See also: Dale, dalë, dále, and d-ale

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: dāl, IPA^(key): /deɪl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English dale, from Old English dæl, from Proto-West Germanic *dal, from Proto-Germanic *dalą.

Noun

dale (plural dales)

1. (chiefly British, slightly dated outside Yorkshire etc.) A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.

   Synonyms: dell, dells, vale

   • c. 1587, Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love:

     And we will all the pleasures prove / That hills and valleys, dales and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields

   • 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 57:

     Five miles meandering with a mazy motion, / Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, / Then reached the caverns measureless to man, / And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: [...]

   • 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “The Clock House at Nuncombe Putney”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 113:

     The country about Nuncombe Putney is perhaps as pretty as any in England. It is beyond the river Teign, between that and Dartmoor, and is so lovely in all its variations of rivers, rivulets, broken ground, hills and dales, old broken, battered, time-worn timber, green knolls, rich pastures, and heathy common, that the wonder is that English lovers of scenery know so little of it.

   • 1908, Edmund Louis Gruber, The Caissons Go Rolling Along:

     Over hill, over dale / As we hit the dusty trail, / And those caissons go rolling along.

2. The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.

   Antonym: hill

Derived terms

• acre-dale
• Airedale
• Annandale
• Banksiadale
• Borrowdale
• Calderdale
• Castle Dale
• Chapel-le-Dale
• Clarksdale
• Cloverdale
• Clydesdale
• Coverdale
• Cozaddale
• daleman
• daleside
• dalesman
• Dalton
• Darley Dale
• Denby Dale
• Dentdale
• Derbyshire Dales
• Elmsdale
• Eskdale
• Ferndale
• Foxdale
• Glendale
• Helendale
• Hillsdale
• Honesdale
• Jarrahdale
• Lawndale
• Limedale
• Longville in the Dale
• Lucedale
• Martin Dales
• Martin Dales
• Miller's Dale
• Monsal Dale
• Nether Wyresdale
• Newton Dale
• Nidderdale
• Nithsdale
• Oakdale
• Palmdale
• Peak Dale
• pissdale
• Ribblesdale
• Riverdale
• Rochdale
• rundale
• Sunningdale
• Swaledale
• Teesdale
• Teviotdale
• Thornton-le-Dale, Thornton Dale
• Tindall
• Tweeddale
• up hill and down dale
• Weardale
• Wensleydale
• Wharfedale

 

Related terms

• dollar

Translations

valley

• Afrikaans: dal (af)
• Arabic: ثَنِيَّة f (ṯaniyya)
• Basque: ibar
• Bavarian: Thoi
• Belarusian: далі́на f (dalína)
• Bulgarian: долина (bg) f (dolina)
• Chamicuro: kajs̈hopi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山谷 (zh) (shāngǔ)

• Czech: údolí (cs) n, dol m
• Danish: dal (da) c
• Dutch: dal (nl) n, vallei (nl) f
• Faroese: dalur m
• Finnish: laakso (fi)
• French: vallon (fr) m
• Galician: val (gl) m
• German: Tal (de) n

  Alemannic German: Dàl, Doal, Tau, Daal

  Rhine Franconian: Dahl (Palatine)

• Icelandic: dalur (is) m
• Italian: valle (it) f
• Japanese: 谷 (ja) (たに, tani)
• Limburgish: doal
• Luxembourgish: Dall (lb) m
• Middle English: dale
• Norwegian: dal (no) m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dal m
• Ottoman Turkish: دره (dere)
• Pennsylvania German: Daal, Waelli
• Persian: دره (fa) (dare)
• Polish: dolina (pl)
• Portuguese: vale (pt) m
• Russian: доли́на (ru) f (dolína)
• Serbo-Croatian: dol (sh), dolina (sh), udolina (sh)
• Slovene: dolína (sl) f
• Spanish: valle (es) m
• Swedish: dal (sv) c
• Turkish: vadi (tr)
• Ukrainian: доли́на f (dolýna)
• Welsh: dyffryn (cy), dôl

Etymology 2

Related to Low German daal or Dutch daal (“lowers, descends”) and French dalle (“trough; conduit”). Attested in English since the seventeenth century.

Noun

dale (plural dales)

1. (archaic) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
   • 1853, John Fincham, An Outline of Ship Building in Four Parts‎^[1], page 40:

     The pump-dale scupper is that to which the dale leads, that conveys the water from the pumps to the side on the lower deck of large ships.

References

• “dale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• ALDE, Adel, Deal, Dela, E.D. La., Lade, Leda, adle, deal, lade, lead

Albanian

Alternative forms

• daleni (Plural)

Etymology 1

From dal (“I exit, go out”); see dal for more.

Interjection

dale

1. come out, get out (as a request, plea or as an order)

Etymology 2

Short form of ndal (“I halt, stop, rest, hold up”). See ndal and dal for more.

Interjection

dale

1. wait, stay, hold up

   Synonym: ndal

2. don't hurry, relax, chill

Related terms

• dal (active)
• dalë (participle)
• dalë, dalë (i, e)
• dalë n, dalët n
• dalë f, dala f
• dalje f, dalja f
• ngadalë
• ngadalësi f, ngadalësia f
• ngadalësim m, ngadalësimi m
• ngadalësoj (active)
• ngadalësohet (passive)
• ngadalësuar (participle)
• ngadalshëm m, ngadalshme f
• dalëngadalë
• ndal (active)
• ndalem (passive)
• ndalur (participle)
• ndaloj (active)
• ndalohem (passive)
• ndaluar (participle)

 

Further reading

• [2] interjection dale (dále) (plural daleni (dáleni)) • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)

Danish

Etymology 1

See dal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daːlə/, [ˈd̥æːlə]

Noun

dale c

1. indefinite plural of dal

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German dalen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daːlə/, [ˈd̥æːlə]

Verb

dale (imperative dal, infinitive at dale, present tense daler, past tense dalede, perfect tense har dalet)

1. fall
2. descend
3. go down
4. sink
5. decrease
6. fall off
7. subside
8. decline

Antonyms

• stige

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

dale

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of dalen

Anagrams

• adel, lade

Gothic

Romanization

dale

1. Romanization of 𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌴

Middle English

Alternative forms

• (Early ME) dæle, deale

Etymology

From Old English dæl, from Proto-West Germanic *dal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daːl/, /dɛːl/, /dal/

Noun

dale (plural dales)

1. A dale or valley.
2. (rare) A hole or barrow.

Declension

    Declension of dale

	Singular	Plural
nominative, accusative	dale	dales
genitive	dale	dales
dative	dale	dalen

Related terms

• dalke (probably)

Descendants

• English: dale
• Scots: dale, daal

References

• “dāle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.

Mogum

Noun

dale

1. daughter

References

• Association pour la Promotion de la Langue Mogum, 2012, Usunoŋten nasarawe 1. Transition de mogoum en français.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑ.le/

Adjective

dale

1. inflection of deal:
   1. strong accusative feminine singular
   2. strong instrumental masculine/neuter singular
   3. strong nominative/accusative masculine/feminine plural
   4. weak nominative feminine/neuter singular
   5. weak accusative neuter singular

Spanish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdale/ [ˈd̪a.le]
• Rhymes: -ale
• Syllabification: da‧le

Interjection

dale

1. (Argentina) OK, okey dokey, right

   Synonyms: vale, (Mexico) sale, okey

2. (Latin America) "do it", "get it", "give it", "go ahead", "go for it!", "go on", "hit it"

   Synonyms: (Mexico) ándale, go on

Derived terms

• dale que dale

 

Verb

dale

1. inflection of dar:
   1. second-person singular imperative combined with le
   2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with le

Further reading

• “dale”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• dali

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish dale.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdale/ [ˈd̪aː.lɛ]
• Rhymes: -ale
• Syllabification: da‧le

Noun

dale (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜎᜒ)

1. unprovoked attack (verbal or physical)

   Synonyms: tira, sabak, banat

2. (colloquial) speaking out of turn

   Synonyms: satsat, daldal, tsismis

Derived terms

• dalihin
• dumale
• madale
• magdalihan

 

Interjection

dale (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜎᜒ)

1. go ahead!; go on!

   Synonyms: sige, sulong

Anagrams

• dela

Venetan

Adjective

dale f

1. feminine plural of dalo