selep 2 verb English. Goes dry, of cooking staple. (When fully cooked considered ideal.) Example sentence: Subanen. Sug binaalegaan ku, kali' peglinug, nda' tagad meselep, migela' mesipukii tubigen. Bena' mipaleng su gapuyen. English. When the earthquake came, the water hadn't absorbed yet in the rice I was cooking, and it all splashed out. So it put the fire out.