/²skɑːla/
UrsprungFrom Old Swedish skala, attested since 1400–1425. Equivalent to skal (“shell, peel”) + -a. Compare Norwegian and Danish skalle, older Danish skale, Middle Low German schālen, German schälen.
- to peel (to remove the skin or outer covering of), to (de‐)shell
“skala en banan” — peel a banana
- to scale (change the size of while maintaining proportion)
- oftento scale (change the extent of)
“Vi skalar upp kebabsåsproduktionen” — We're scaling up kebab sauce production
- to scale; to tolerate significant increases in throughput
- common-gendera scale; ordered numerical sequence
- common-gendera scale; scope
- common-gendera scale; the ratio of depicted distance to actual distance
- common-gendera scale; means of assigning a magnitude
- common-gendera scale; a series of notes
Formerskalar(present) · skalade(preterite) · skalat(supine) · skala(imperative) · skala(active, infinitive) · skalas(infinitive, passive) · skalat(active, supine) · skalats(passive, supine) · skala(active, imperative) · -(imperative, passive) · skalen(active, archaic, error-unrecognized-form) · -(archaic, error-unrecognized-form, passive) · skalar(active, indicative, present) · skalade(active, indicative, past) · skalas(indicative, passive, present) · skalades(indicative, passive, past) · skala(active, archaic, error-unrecognized-form, present) · skalade(active, archaic, error-unrecognized-form, past) · skalas(archaic, error-unrecognized-form, passive, present) · skalades(archaic, error-unrecognized-form, passive, past)