salve

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From Latin salvē. The verb is from the interjection.

From Middle English salve, from Old English sealf, from Proto-West Germanic *salbu, from Proto-Germanic *salbō, from Proto-Indo-European *solp-éh2, from *selp- (“salve, ointment”). Cognates Cognate with Middle Low German salve (Danish salve, Dutch zalf), Old High German salba (German Salbe), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍉𐌽𐍃 (salbōns), Albanian gjalpë (“butter”), Sanskrit सर्पिस् (sarpís), Ancient Greek ἔλπος (élpos).

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *selp-der. Proto-Indo-European *solp-éh2 Proto-Germanic *salbō Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *salbōną Proto-West Germanic *salbōn Old English sealfian Middle English salven English salve From Old English sealfian, from Proto-West Germanic *salbōn, from Proto-Germanic *salbōną, from *salbō (whence salve (noun)).

From Latin salvō (“to save”).

83 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مَرْهَم (marham) — ointment, cream or balm
• Arabic: زَبْدَة (zabda) — ointment, cream or balm
• Arabic: بَلْسَم (balsam) — ointment, cream or balm
• Catalan: ungüent — ointment, cream or balm
• Catalan: pomada — ointment, cream or balm
• Catalan: bàlsam — ointment, cream or balm
• Chinese Mandarin: 藥膏 /药膏 (yàogāo) — ointment, cream or balm
• Chinese Mandarin: 軟膏 /软膏 (ruǎngāo) — ointment, cream or balm
• Cornish: eli — ointment, cream or balm
• Czech: balzám — ointment, cream or balm
• Czech: hojivá mast — ointment, cream or balm
• Dutch: zalf — ointment, cream or balm
• Esperanto: ungvento — ointment, cream or balm
• Finnish: voide — ointment, cream or balm
• Finnish: salva — ointment, cream or balm
• Finnish: balsami — ointment, cream or balm
• French: onguent — ointment, cream or balm
• French: pommade — ointment, cream or balm
• French: baume — ointment, cream or balm
• German: Salbe — ointment, cream or balm
• German: Balsam — ointment, cream or balm
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍉𐌽𐍃 (salbōns) — ointment, cream or balm
• Greek: αλοιφή (aloifí) — ointment, cream or balm
• Hebrew: מִשְׁחָה (mishkha) — ointment, cream or balm
• Hebrew: צֳרִי (tsori) — ointment, cream or balm
• Indonesian: salep — ointment, cream or balm
• Indonesian: balsem — ointment, cream or balm
• Ingrian: voije — ointment, cream or balm
• Ingrian: maazi — ointment, cream or balm
• Irish: ungadh — ointment, cream or balm
• Italian: unguento — ointment, cream or balm
• Italian: balsamo — ointment, cream or balm
• Italian: pomata — ointment, cream or balm
• Japanese: 軟膏 (nankō) — ointment, cream or balm
• Kannada: ಹಚ್ಚುಮದ್ದು (haccumaddu) — ointment, cream or balm
• Korean: 연고 (yeon'go) — ointment, cream or balm
• Latvian: ziede — ointment, cream or balm
• Latvian: svaide — ointment, cream or balm
• Luxembourgish: Sallef — ointment, cream or balm
• Macedonian: мелем (melem) — ointment, cream or balm
• Māori: rongoā maene — ointment, cream or balm
• Norwegian Bokmål: salve — ointment, cream or balm
• Norwegian Nynorsk: salve — ointment, cream or balm
• Plautdietsch: Saulw — ointment, cream or balm
• Polish: balsam — ointment, cream or balm
• Polish: maść — ointment, cream or balm
• Portuguese: pomada — ointment, cream or balm
• Russian: бальза́м (balʹzám) — ointment, cream or balm
• Russian: мазь (mazʹ) — ointment, cream or balm
• Spanish: ungüento — ointment, cream or balm
• Spanish: pomada — ointment, cream or balm
• Spanish: bálsamo — ointment, cream or balm
• Tocharian B: laupe — ointment, cream or balm
• Tocharian B: ṣalype — ointment, cream or balm
• Turkish: merhem — ointment, cream or balm
• Ottoman Turkish: مرهم (merhem) — ointment, cream or balm
• Ukrainian: бальза́м (balʹzám) — ointment, cream or balm
• Ukrainian: мазь (mazʹ) — ointment, cream or balm
• Volapük: nugvet — ointment, cream or balm
• Welsh: eli — ointment, cream or balm
• Yiddish: זאַלב (zalb) — ointment, cream or balm
• Czech: balzám — something that soothes or heals
• Finnish: balsami — something that soothes or heals
• French: baume — something that soothes or heals
• Greek: βάλσαμο (válsamo) — something that soothes or heals
• Italian: balsamo — something that soothes or heals
• Māori: rongoā maene — something that soothes or heals
• Polish: balsam — something that soothes or heals
• Czech: uklidnit — to calm or assuage
• Czech: utišit — to calm or assuage
• Czech: ukonejšit — to calm or assuage
• Finnish: rauhoittaa — to calm or assuage
• Greek: ελαφρύνω (elafrýno) — to calm or assuage
• Italian: guarire — to calm or assuage
• Italian: curare — to calm or assuage
• Polish: uspokajać — to calm or assuage
• Polish: uspokoić — to calm or assuage
• Czech: zachránit — to salvage
• Czech: spasit — to salvage
• Finnish: pelastaa — to salvage
• Italian: salvare — to salvage
• Polish: ratować — to salvage
• Polish: uratować — to salvage