selva

See also: Selva and selvä

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese selva, from Latin silva. Doublet of silva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlvə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

selva (plural selvas)

1. Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin.

Translations

heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin

Armenian: սելվա (selva)

Anagrams

• avels, evals, Laves, Elvas, Veals, 'alves, slave, Slavé, Alves, salve, Levas, laves, vales, veals, valse, Slave

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Navarro-Aragonese selva, from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). Compare Catalan selva, Spanish selva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈselba/
• Syllabification: sel‧va
• Rhymes: -elba

Noun

selva f

1. forest

   Synonym: bosque

2. jungle, rainforest

Hypernyms

• bosque

Derived terms

• selva amazonica
• selva tropical

Related terms

• salvache
• selvatico

References

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

Asturian

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selva

Wikipedia ^ast

Etymology

From Latin silva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈselba/ [ˈsel.β̞a]

Noun

selva f (plural selves)

1. rainforest

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan selva, from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). Compare Occitan selva, Spanish selva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsɛl.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈsəl.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsel.va]

Noun

selva f (plural selves)

1. jungle, rainforest

Hypernyms

• bosc

Derived terms

• selva amazònica
• selva nebulosa
• selva pluvial
• selva tropical

Related terms

• salvatge
• selvatà
• selvàtic
• selvatgí

References

• “selva”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “selva” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.