pasal

See also: pasał

Cahuilla

Noun

pásal

1. An annual native sage with nutritious seeds, chia, Salvia columbariae

Cypriot Arabic

Root
p-s-l
2 terms

Etymology

From Arabic بَصَل (baṣal).

Noun

pasal m (collective, singulative pasale f, plural pasalát)

1. onions

References

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 159

Estonian

Noun

pasal

1. adessive singular of pask

Galician

pasais across the river Ulla

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese passal, from local Medieval Latin passalis (“step”), from Latin passus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈsal/, (dialectal) /paˈsaʊ̯/

Noun

pasal m (plural pasais)

1. (archaic) step
   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 637:

     Et seyo el rrey do campo et mandou aredar a gente de redor do cãpo sete passaes.

     And the king got away from the field, and ordered the people to draw back seven steps from the field

2. one of several stones placed in a river by way of a bridge

   Synonyms: pasada, piar, poldra

3. step, stair

Related terms

• paso
• pasar

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “passal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “passaes”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pasal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pasal”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pasal”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay fasal, from Arabic فَصْل (faṣl, “chapter, paragraph, division”).

• The law sense of article is a semantic loan from Dutch artikel (“article”). Replaced by Komisi Bahasa Indonesia as published on Kanpō/Berita Pemerintah No.38 Year III Month 3 (2604) in 1944.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpasal/ [ˈpa.sal]
• Rhymes: -asal
• Syllabification: pa‧sal

Noun

pasal (plural pasal-pasal, first-person possessive pasalku, second-person possessive pasalmu, third-person possessive pasalnya)

1. (law) article: a section of a legal document, bylaws, etc. or, in the plural, the entire document seen as a collection of these.

   Synonym: artikel

2. case, matter

   Synonyms: hal, perkara

3. cause, reason

   Synonyms: sebab, lantaran

Alternative forms

• fasal (obsolete)
• fatsal (pre-1947)

Derived terms

• pasalnya

 

• pasal berlapis
• pasal karet

 

Further reading

• “pasal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pasal/
  • (Kedah Malay) IPA^(key): [pasaj]
• Rhymes: -sal, -al

Noun

pasal (Jawi spelling ڤصل, plural pasal-pasal, informal 1st possessive pasalku, 2nd possessive pasalmu, 3rd possessive pasalnya)

1. (informal) Alternative form of fasal.

Preposition

pasal (Jawi spelling ڤصل)

1. (informal) Alternative form of fasal.

   Pasal hutang kau dekat aku tu, lupakan saja.

   About that money you owe me, just forget about it.

Conjunction

pasal (Jawi spelling ڤصل)

1. (informal) Alternative form of fasal.

   Ali suka matematik pasal dia dah lama terdedah kepada mata pelajaran tu.

   Ali likes mathematics because he has been exposed to that subject for a long time.

Further reading

• “pasal” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.