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Romani
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit शुल्ब (śulba) or शुल्व (śulva).
Noun
śelo m (nominative plural śele)
- (International Standard) rope
References
- Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “šeló”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 269
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o śel/o, -es- m. -e, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 338