Selma (Bijelo Dugme song)
WordNet
noun
(1) A town in central Alabama on the Alabama river; in 1965 it was the center of a drive to register Black voters
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Etymology
Taken to use in the 19th century when similar-sounding names, Elma, Thelma, Alma, Wilma etc. were in vogue. It is a place name in the Poems of Ossian, but at least a part of the name-givers must have been aware of the name .
Quotations
- 1765 James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, Tauchnitz 1847, page 253:
- Happy are thy people, O Fingal! king of resounding Selma!
Proper noun
- , cognate to the English Selma.
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Proper noun
- , cognate to the English Selma.
Proper noun
- , cognate to the English Selma.
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Proper noun
- , cognate to the English Selma.
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