selva
/ˈselba/ · B1 · noun · f
forest
🌳🐒 From Latin silva, woods: Penn-sylvania means Penn's woods
Selva comes from Latin silva, forest. English kept it in sylvan (of the woods) and Pennsylvania (Penn's woods). In Spanish the v sounds like b, so it's said SEL-ba. Feminine: la selva amazónica, the Amazon rainforest.