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4-letter words (4 found)

DALE,DEAL,LADE,LEAD,

3-letter words (8 found)

ALE,DAE,DAL,DEL,ELD,LAD,LEA,LED,

2-letter words (9 found)

AD,AE,AL,DA,DE,EA,ED,EL,LA,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 22 words from dale according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of dale

dale adle dlae ldae alde lade dael adel deal edal aedl eadl dlea ldea dela edla leda elda aled laed aeld eald lead elad

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Definitions and meaning of dale

dale

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dāl, IPA(key): /deɪl/
  • 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. (slightly dated, chiefly British) A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.
    Synonyms: dell, dells, vale
  2. The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
    Antonym: hill
Derived terms
Related terms
  • dollar
Translations

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.

References

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

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

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

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.

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

Derived terms

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Alternative forms

  • dali

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish dale.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: da‧le
  • IPA(key): /ˈdale/, [ˈda.lɛ]

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

Interjection

dale (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜎᜒ)

  1. go ahead!; go on!
    Synonyms: sige, sulong

Venetian

Adjective

dale f

  1. feminine plural of dalo

Source: wiktionary.org