sela

sela

1. plural of selo

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

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

sela

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

sela

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

• Elsa
• lesa

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛlɐ]

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 [the horse] with the saddle on before each one of the medicines

2. (archaic) throne; chair

• “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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. (archaic) stone

   Synonym: batu

Borrowed from Minangkabau [Term?].

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

sela

1. (dialect) squint

   Synonym: juling

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

sela

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

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

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

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.

• celah
• selang

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

sela

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

Borrowed from English cell.

sela

1. cell (unit of life)

From Proto-Germanic *saiwalō.

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.

• siela

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

• “siela”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

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

-séla

1. to drink

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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

• Homophone: cela
• Hyphenation: se‧la

sela f (plural selas)

1. saddle

sela

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

-séla

1. to drink

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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

sela

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

From English sailor.

sela

1. sailor

• sala

From Arabic صَلَاة‎ (ṣalāh).

• IPA^(key): /seˈlɑː/

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.

• sela in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

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

-séla

1. (transitive) to drink

This verb needs an inflection-table template.