jale

See also: Jale and jalé

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• jali

Etymology

From a Common Slavic žalĩ. Compare Romanian jale.

Noun

jale f

1. grief, sadness, distress

Antonyms

• harauã

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• yale, iale

Etymology

From Latin illae, nominative feminine plural of ille.

Pronoun

jale f (pl) (feminine singular jala)

1. (third-person feminine plural pronoun) they

Related terms

• jal, jala
• jali (masculine plural)
• jai

See also

• ju
• te
• nu
• vu

Middle English

Noun

jale

1. (Late Middle English) Alternative form of gayole

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀚𑀮𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• जले (Devanagari script)
• জলে (Bengali script)
• ජලෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ဇလေ or ၹလေ (Burmese script)
• ชเล or ชะเล (Thai script)
• ᨩᩃᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ຊເລ or ຊະເລ (Lao script)
• ជលេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄎𑄣𑄬 (Chakma script)

Noun

jale

1. locative singular of jala (“water”)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʒa.le/

• Audio:

  (file)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic жаль (žalĭ), from Proto-Slavic *žalь. Compare Aromanian jali.

Noun

jale f (uncountable)

1. grief, distress

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	jale	jalea
genitive-dative	jale	jalei
vocative	jale, jaleo

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hungarian zsálya.

Noun

jale f (uncountable)

1. (botany) common sage (Salvia officinalis)

   Synonym: salvie

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	jale	jalea
genitive-dative	jale	jalei
vocative	jale, jaleo

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

jale (Cyrillic spelling јале)

1. vocative singular of jal

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxale/ [ˈxa.le]
• Rhymes: -ale
• Syllabification: ja‧le

Etymology 1

Deverbal from jalar.

Noun

jale m (plural jales)

1. (Mexico slang) job, work
2. (Peru, slang) sex appeal
3. (Peru, slang) charisma, pull
4. (Peru) recruitment, signing up (in the context of being called to join an organization, sports club, political party, etc.)

Etymology 2

Verb

jale

1. inflection of jalar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “jale”, 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

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ژاله (žâle).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒale/
• Hyphenation: ja‧le

Noun

jale (definite accusative jaleyi, plural jaleler)

1. (dated) dew

   Synonyms: çiy, çiğ, kırağı, şebnem