"sale" meaning in French

See sale in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /sal/ Audio: Fr-sale.ogg Forms: sales [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Middle French sale, from Old French sale (“dull, dirty”), from Frankish *salu (“dull, dirty grey”), from Proto-Germanic *salwaz (“dusky, dark, muddy”), from Proto-Indo-European *salw-, *sal- (“dirt, dirty”). Cognate with Old High German salo (“dull, dirty grey”), Old English salu (“dark, dusky”), Old Norse sǫlr (“yellowish”). More at sallow. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|frm|sale|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle French sale, {{inh+|fr|frm|sale}} Inherited from Middle French sale, {{inh|fr|fro|sale||dull, dirty}} Old French sale (“dull, dirty”), {{der|fr|frk|*salu||dull, dirty grey}} Frankish *salu (“dull, dirty grey”), {{der|fr|gem-pro|*salwaz||dusky, dark, muddy}} Proto-Germanic *salwaz (“dusky, dark, muddy”), {{der|fr|ine-pro|*salw-}} Proto-Indo-European *salw-, {{m|ine-pro|*sal-||dirt, dirty}} *sal- (“dirt, dirty”), {{cog|goh|salo||dull, dirty grey}} Old High German salo (“dull, dirty grey”), {{cog|ang|salu||dark, dusky}} Old English salu (“dark, dusky”), {{cog|non|sǫlr||yellowish}} Old Norse sǫlr (“yellowish”), {{m|en|sallow}} sallow Head templates: {{fr-adj}} sale (plural sales)
  1. dirty Synonyms: crasseux, malpropre
    Sense id: en-sale-fr-adj-0MksdkxW
  2. bad, unpleasant
    Sense id: en-sale-fr-adj-XyLmwFU0
  3. vile, despicable Synonyms: méprisable, vil
    Sense id: en-sale-fr-adj-NhJk~SjH
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: salopard, salope, saloper, saloperie, salopiaud, ordurier

Verb

IPA: /sal/ Audio: Fr-sale.ogg
Etymology: From saler. Etymology templates: {{m|fr|saler}} saler Head templates: {{head|fr|verb form}} sale
  1. inflection of saler:
    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    Tags: first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person
    Sense id: en-sale-fr-verb-4Ecg4axZ Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 1 30 1 46 22
  2. inflection of saler:
    second-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, second-person, singular
    Sense id: en-sale-fr-verb-sXMobgDW
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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