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Yes. The word selva is a Scrabble US word. The word selva is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word selva is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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5-letter words (9 found)

AVELS,LAVES,LEVAS,SALVE,SELVA,SLAVE,VALES,VALSE,VEALS,

4-letter words (18 found)

ALES,AVEL,AVES,LASE,LAVE,LAVS,LEAS,LEVA,LEVS,SALE,SAVE,SEAL,SLAE,VAES,VALE,VASE,VEAL,VELA,

3-letter words (18 found)

ALE,ALS,AVE,EAS,ELS,LAS,LAV,LEA,LES,LEV,SAE,SAL,SAV,SEA,SEL,SEV,VAE,VAS,

2-letter words (7 found)

AE,AL,AS,EA,EL,ES,LA,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 53 words from selva according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of selva

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Definitions and meaning of selva

selva

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛlvə/

Noun

selva (plural selvas)

  1. Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin.

Translations

Anagrams

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

Asturian

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): (Valencian) [ˈsel.va]

Noun

selva f (plural selves)

  1. jungle, rainforest

Hypernyms

  • bosc

Derived terms

Related terms

  • salvatge
  • selvàtic

References

  • “selva” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “selva” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsel.va/, /ˈsɛl.va/
  • Rhymes: -elva, -ɛlva
  • Hyphenation: sél‧va, sèl‧va

Noun

selva f (plural selve)

  1. forest, wood
  2. (by extension, poetic) wood (material), woodland
    • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, Il Canzoniere, Andrea Bettini (1858), p.188, Capitolo XIII:
  3. (figurative) mass, multitude, forest

Synonyms

  • bosco
  • foresta

Derived terms

  • selvicoltore
  • selvicultore

Related terms

References

Anagrams

  • salve, slave, svela, valse

Latvian

Noun

selva f (4th declension)

  1. selva

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). Compare the doublet silva.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: sel‧va

Noun

selva f (plural selvas)

  1. jungle
  2. woods, forest
    Synonyms: floresta; see also Thesaurus:floresta
  3. (figuratively) mass, multitude, forest

Quotations

  • 1844: O apertado revolver das armas formava uma selva de ferros em volta dos dois capitães inimigos, através da qual debalde o conde de Septum buscara multas vezes abrir caminho para ferir Teodomiro, até que finalmente, galgando por cima de um árabe derribado, pudera vibrar um golpe. — Alexandre Herculano, "Eurico, o Presbítero".

Derived terms

  • selvagem
  • selvageria
  • silvestre
  • silvícola
  • silvicultura

Descendants

  • → English: selva
  • → Russian: се́льва (sélʹva)

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈselba/ [ˈsel.β̞a]
  • Rhymes: -elba
  • Syllabification: sel‧va

Noun

selva f (plural selvas)

  1. (forestry) forest or jungle, wood, chiefly a rainforest

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • → Russian: се́льва (sélʹva)

See also

  • bosque
  • jungla

Further reading

  • “selva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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