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. Doublet of silla. Cognate with Portuguese sela and Spanish silla.

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

sela f (plural selas)

1. saddle
2. (archaic) throne; chair

   Synonyms: trono, cadeira

• 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

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /səˈla/ [səˈla]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: se‧la

sêla (plural sela-sela)

1. interval, break (time in between two events)
2. cleft, crack, crevice

   Synonym: celah

3. interim, provisional

   Synonym: selang

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

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

sela (plural sela-sela)

1. (archaic) saddle (a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal)

   Synonym: pelana the

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

sela

1. alternative form of sila (“to sit cross-legged”)

• “sela”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of 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)

• siela, *sēola, *siola

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.

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

• “siela”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• seela, seella, sella, ssela, ssella

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

Inherited from Late Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

sela f (plural selas)

1. saddle (seat placed on the back of an animal)
   • 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. seat; chair

   Synonym: cadeira

3. throne

   Synonym: trono

4. pedestal

   Synonym: basa

• Galician: sela
• Portuguese: sela

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sela

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

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “sela”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “sela”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), “sela”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “s?e?l?a”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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.

• Rhymes: -ɛlɐ
• Homophone: cela
• Hyphenation: se‧la

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

sela f (plural selas)

1. saddle (seat placed on the back of an animal)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sela

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

• “sela”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “sela”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “sela”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
• “sela”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “sela”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN

• lesa

-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

sele (“harness”) +‎ -a

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

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

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, 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.