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sela

sela is the plural of selo.

Meaning of selo

Noun

selo (plural selos or sela)

  1. A village, in various Slavic regions.
    • Most Ukrainian and southern Russian selos are large; often they have several hundred households, and there are selos with more than a thousand.1985, American Geographical Society of New York, Soviet Geography, volume 26, page 194

Proper noun capitalized: Sela

Sela

  1. (historical) The capital of Edom, near Mount Hor; also known as Joktheel and Petra.
    • Selah, the capital of Idumea, built on an elevated plain, was situated in a deep valley, the entrance to which is by a lengthened defile, in some places not more than eight feet wide, which, in some parts, rising from 400 to 700 feet, nearly meet over head, about ninety miles to the south-east of...1838, John R. Miles, Scripture Geography; Containing Illustrations of all the Places Mentioned in the Old and New Testament; with Accounts of their Past and Present Condition, their History...
  2. A village in modern-day Jordan near the location of historical Sela.

Forms of sela

alternative formSelah

Origin of sela

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew סֶּלַע (Sela‛, “rock”); compare Arabic السَّلَع (as-salaʕ).

Phrases with sela

Questions about sela

What does sela mean?
Sela means the capital of Edom, near Mount Hor; also known as Joktheel and Petra.
What is sela the plural of?
Sela is the plural of selo.
What part of speech is sela?
Sela is a proper noun.

Words near sela in the dictionary

  1. Sekts
  2. Sekula
  3. Sekulas
  4. SEL
  5. sel-green
  6. sela
  7. selachian
  8. selachians
  9. selachoid
  10. selacholeic
  11. selacholeic acid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sela (page history and authors); Sela (page history and authors); selo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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