salir
French, verb/sa.liʁ/
salir is a French verb meaning “to dirty, make dirty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre sale”.
What does salir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dirty, make dirty
- 2
to sully (someone's reputation etc.)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre sale. 2. Présenter à l’imagination des idées déshonnêtes. 3. Déshonorer quelqu’un par des propos, par des calomnies. 4. Se dit d’un homme qui a fait quelque action nuisible à sa réputation.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of salir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- salissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- sali participle past
- salis first-person indicative present
- salit indicative present singular
- salissons first-person indicative plural
- salissez indicative plural present
- salissent indicative plural present
- salissais first-person imperfect indicative
- salissait imperfect indicative singular
- salissions first-person imperfect indicative
- salissiez imperfect indicative plural
- salissaient imperfect indicative plural
- salîmes first-person historic indicative
- salîtes historic indicative past
- salirent historic indicative past
- salirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce salir?
- /sa.liʁ/
- \sa.liʁ\
- [sa.liʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to salir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is salir in French?
salir appears 3.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).