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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 셀카 (selka), from English self + camera.[1]
Noun
selca (plural selcas)
- (South Korean idol fandom) A photographic portrait taken by the subject; a selfie.
- 2017, Dinna Chan Vasquez, "Let me take a selfie", BusinessMirror, 19 August 2016, page A10:
- My daughter and her friends take the best selcas and that's even before they use filters.
2018, Adrian Besley, BTS: Icons of K-Pop, unnumbered page:Jimin's selca (selfie) obsession provides ARMY with a wealth of glorious photos.
- 2019, Katy Sprinkel, The Big Book of BTS: The Deluxe Unofficial Bangtan Book, unnumbered page (image caption):
- Fans take selcas with cutouts of BTS wearing traditional Korean garb—hanbok—at an exhibit of the 2018 Gangnam Festival.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:selca.
References
- ^ Jieun Kiaer, Translingual Words: An East Asian Lexical Encounter with English, page 72
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