selai

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch gelei (“jelly”), mainly dialectals, or Portuguese geleia (“jelly, jam”), from French gelée.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [səˈlai̯]
• Hyphenation: sê‧lai

Noun

sêlai (plural selai-selai)

1. jam, sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar

   Synonym: jem

   selai nanas ― pineapple jam

Alternative forms

• sele

Further reading

• “selai”, 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

Portuguese

Verb

selai

1. second-person plural imperative of selar