salami.
salami; a strongly seasoned, cured sausage, typically served cold in slices
Meaning & usage
salami; a strongly seasoned, cured sausage, typically served cold in slices
kjøpe en pakke salami
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Italian salame (“salami”), from sale (“salt”) with the collective noun-forming suffix -ame (“collective noun-forming suffix”), from Latin sal (“salt”), from Proto-Italic *sāls, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l (“salt”). The Norwegian form corresponds formally to Italian salami, the plural of salame. Compare Danish salami, Swedish salami, German Salami, Dutch salami, French salami, Catalan salami, Spanish salami, Finnish salami, Polish salami, Hungarian szalámi, Czech salám, Slovak saláma, Romanian salam, Turkish salam and Russian саля́ми (saljámi), all meaning “salami”.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.