sela

Noun

sela

1. plural of selo

Anagrams

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛla]
• 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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛlɐ]

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

2. (archaic) throne; chair

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “sela”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sela”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sela”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “sela”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

Etymology 4

Perhaps from Borrowed from Minangkabau

Etymology 5

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 of Indonesia, 2016.

Romanization

sela

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

Etymology

Borrowed from English cell.

Noun

sela

1. cell (unit of life)

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.

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

Verb

-séla

1. to drink

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

Verb

-séla

1. to drink

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsela/ [ˈse.la]
• 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

Etymology

sele (“harness”) +‎ -a

Verb

sela (present selar, preterite selade, supine selat, imperative sela)

1. (sometimes with på) to harness (put a harness on (a horse or other draft animal))

   sela (på) en häst

   harness a horse

   en (på)selad häst

   a harnessed horse

References

• sela in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sela in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sela in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Etymology

From English sailor.

Noun

sela

1. sailor

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.

References

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

Etymology

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

Verb

-séla

1. (transitive) to drink