selca

See also: Selca

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 셀카 (selka), from English self + camera.[1]

Noun

selca (plural selcas)

(South Korean idol fandom) A photographic portrait taken by the subject; a selfie.
- 2017, Dinna Chan Vasquez, "Let me take a selfie", BusinessMirror, 19 August 2016, page A10:
  My daughter and her friends take the best selcas and that's even before they use filters.
- 2018, Adrian Besley, BTS: Icons of K-Pop, unnumbered page:
  Jimin's selca (selfie) obsession provides ARMY with a wealth of glorious photos.
- 2019, Katy Sprinkel, The Big Book of BTS: The Deluxe Unofficial Bangtan Book, unnumbered page (image caption):
  Fans take selcas with cutouts of BTS wearing traditional Korean garb—hanbok—at an exhibit of the 2018 Gangnam Festival.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:selca.

References

Jieun Kiaer, Translingual Words: An East Asian Lexical Encounter with English, page 72

Anagrams

-clase, Celas, Salce, acles, alecs, claes, laces, scale

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