selar

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See also: sèlar and șelar

Malay[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saŋelaʀ, compare Tetum sona.

Verb[edit]

selar

  1. to brand

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

selar

  1. a canopy
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:
      Anone as he beganne to werke / ther cam out droppes of blood / and thenne wold he haue lefte / but she wold not suffre hym // and soo he tooke aweye as moche wood as myȝte make a spyndyl / and soo she made hym to take as moche of the grene tree and of the whyte tree / And whan these thre spyndels were shapen / she made hem to be fastned vpon the selar of the bedde
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Noun[edit]

selar m

  1. indefinite plural of sel
  2. indefinite plural of sele

Verb[edit]

selar

  1. present of sela

Old Norse[edit]

Noun[edit]

selar

  1. nominative plural of seli
  2. nominative plural of selr

Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

 
 

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese selar, from Latin sigillāre. Compare Spanish sellar, Catalan segellar, French sceller, Italian suggellare. Cf. also the borrowed doublet sigilar.

Verb[edit]

selar (first-person singular present selo, first-person singular preterite selei, past participle selado)

  1. to seal; to stamp
Conjugation[edit]
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Etymology 2[edit]

From sela +‎ -ar.

Verb[edit]

selar (first-person singular present selo, first-person singular preterite selei, past participle selado)

  1. to saddle
Conjugation[edit]