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 (2015) “selat”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN