sela

English

Noun

sela

1. plural of selo

Anagrams

• ASLE, Ales, ELAS, Elsa, LAEs, LEAs, SEAL, Sale, Salé, Seal, aels, ales, lase, leas, sale, seal

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ɛla
• Hyphenation: se‧la

Participle

sela

1. inflection of sít:
   1. feminine singular past active participle
   2. neuter plural past active participle

Noun

sela

1. inflection of selo:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Anagrams

• Elsa
• lesa

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sela, from Latin sella. Cognate with Portuguese sela and Spanish silla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

sela f (plural selas)

1. saddle
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 117:

     Nota que esta door, que chaman corno, desarreigase çedo se caualgaren en el con sella posta ante cada hũa das meezjnas

     Note that this ache, which they call horn, is soon removed if they ride with the saddle on before each one of the medicines

2. (archaic) throne; chair

References

• “sela” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “sela” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “sela” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “sela” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Indonesian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Portuguese sela, from Old Galician-Portuguese sela, from Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.la/
• Rhymes: -la, -a
• Hyphenation: se‧la

Noun

sela (plural sela-sela, first-person possessive selaku, second-person possessive selamu, third-person possessive selanya)

1. (archaic) saddle: an item of harness (harness saddle) placed on the back of a horse or other animal.

   Synonym: pelana

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese ꦱꦺꦭ (séla, “stone, precious stone, benzoin resin”), from Old Javanese śilā (“stone”), from Sanskrit शिला (śilā, “stone, rock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.la/
• Rhymes: -la, -a
• Hyphenation: se‧la

Noun

sela (plural sela-sela, first-person possessive selaku, second-person possessive selamu, third-person possessive selanya)

1. (archaic) stone

   Synonym: batu

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Minangkabau .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.la/
• Rhymes: -la, -a
• Hyphenation: se‧la

Adjective

sela

1. (dialect) squint

   Synonym: juling

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.la/
• Rhymes: -la, -a
• Hyphenation: se‧la

Verb

sela

1. Alternative spelling of sila (“to sit cross-legged”)

Etymology 5

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sə.ˈla/
• Rhymes: -la, -a
• Hyphenation: sê‧la

Noun

sêla (plural sela-sela, first-person possessive selaku, second-person possessive selamu, third-person possessive selanya)

1. interval, break: time in between two events.
2. cleft, crack, crevice.
3. interim, provisional.

Synonyms

• celah
• selang

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Javanese

Romanization

sela

1. romanization of ꦱꦼꦭ
2. dated spelling of séla, romanization of ꦱꦺꦭ

Malagasy

Etymology

Borrowed from English cell.

Noun

sela

1. cell (unit of life)

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *saiwalō.

Noun

sēla f

1. soul
   • Irlosin sol an frithe sela mina fan then thia ginacont mi, wanda under managon he was mit mi.

     He shall deliver in peace my soul from those who attack me, for amongst many he was with me.

Alternative forms

• siela

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: siele
  • Dutch: ziel
    • Afrikaans: siel
  • Limburgish: zeel

Further reading

• “siela”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Norse

Noun

sela

1. inflection of seli m (“harness”)
   1. oblique singular indefinite of seli
      1. accusative singular indefinite of seli
      2. dative singular indefinite of seli
      3. genitive singular indefinite of seli
   2. accusative plural indefinite of seli
   3. genitive plural indefinite of seli
2. inflection of selr m (“seal”)
   1. accusative plural indefinite of selr
   2. genitive plural indefinite of selr

Phuthi

Verb

-séla

1. to drink

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese sela, from Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: cela
• Hyphenation: se‧la

Noun

sela f (plural selas)

1. saddle

Etymology 2

Verb

sela

1. inflection of selar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Southern Ndebele

Verb

-séla

1. to drink

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsela/
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: se‧la

Verb

sela

1. inflection of ser:
   1. second-person singular imperative combined with la
   2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with la

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English sailor.

Noun

sela

1. sailor

Turkish

Alternative forms

• sala

Etymology

From Arabic صَلَاة (ṣalāh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈlɑː/

Noun

sela (definite accusative selayı, plural selalar)

1. A prayer recited by a muezzin before a funeral prayer or the call to prayer on an Eid or on Fridays.

Declension

References

• “sela”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Xhosa

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

-séla

1. (transitive) to drink

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.