ꦱꦼꦭꦠ꧀

Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch salade, from Middle French salade, from Italian salata.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sə.lat/
  • Rhymes: -lat
  • Hyphenation: se‧lat

Noun

ꦱꦼꦭꦠ꧀ (selat)

  1. (botany) lettuce
  2. (cooking) a Javanese dish influenced by Western cuisine; consists of braised beef tenderloin served in thin watery sauce made from a mixture of garlic, vinegar, kecap manis (sweet soy sauce), Worcestershire sauce, water, and spiced with nutmeg and black pepper

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: selat

Further reading

  • The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2011) “selat”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), 2nd edition, Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN
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