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shala

shala is the alternative form of sal.

Meaning of sal

Noun (1)

sal (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Salt.

Noun (2)

sal (plural sals)

  1. Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree.
    • As the sals were cut in the lower foothill districts the loggers looked towards the mountains in their search for other hardwood timber.1989, Thomas Weber, Hugging the trees: the story of the Chipko movement, page 18

See all 5 meanings of sal

Forms of shala

pluralshalas

Questions about shala

What is shala the alternative form of?
Shala is the alternative form of sal.

Words near shala in the dictionary

  1. Shakyamuni
  2. Shakyamuni Buddha
  3. Shakyas
  4. shakycam
  5. shal
  6. shala
  7. shalabhanjika
  8. shalabhanjikas
  9. shalabhasana
  10. Shalabi
  11. Shalabis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shala (page history and authors); sal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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