dale

• enPR: dāl, IPA^(key): /deɪl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪl

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

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

• dollar

Related to Low German daal or Dutch daal (“lowers, descends”) and French dalle (“trough; conduit”). Attested in English since the seventeenth century.^[1]

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.

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

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

• daleni (Plural)

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

dale

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

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

dale

1. wait, stay, hold up

   Synonym: ndal

2. don't hurry, relax, chill

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

See dal.

• IPA^(key): /daːlə/, [ˈd̥æːlə]

dale c

1. indefinite plural of dal

From Middle Low German dalen.

• IPA^(key): /daːlə/, [ˈd̥æːlə]

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

• stige

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dale

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

• adel, lade

dale

1. Romanization of 𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌴

• (Early ME) dæle, deale

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

• IPA^(key): /daːl/, /dɛːl/, /dal/

dale (plural dales)

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

• dalke (probably)

• English: dale
• Scots: dale, daal

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

dale

1. daughter

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑ.le/

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

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

dale

1. (Argentina) OK, okey dokey, right

   Synonyms: vale, (Mexico) sale, okey

dale

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

• “dale”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

• dali

Borrowed from Spanish dale.

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

dale (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜎᜒ)

1. unprovoked attack (verbal or physical)

   Synonyms: tira, sabak, banat

2. (colloquial) speaking out of turn

   Synonyms: satsat, daldal, tsismis

dale (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜎᜒ)

1. go ahead!; go on!

   Synonyms: sige, sulong

• dela

dale f

1. feminine plural of dalo