Place where salt abounds. Saltpeter, saltpeter, saline. Name of a Spanish municipality, of the Comarca de Loja , Province of Granada ( Andalusia ). Name of a town in India, in West Bengal. Name of an ethnicity of China. Name of a suburb and a locality in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Action of preserving food by applying salt (salting). Action of seasoning with salt. In Colombia, wishing bad luck. Make curses to end the good luck of another.