Selma

Origin

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 Turkish name Selma, ultimately of Arabic origin.

Full definition of Selma

Proper noun

1. .
• 1765 James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, Tauchnitz 1847, page 253:Happy are thy people, O Fingal! king of resounding Selma!

Anagrams

• amels, lames, lamés, males, meals, mesal, Salem, semla