Salda
Salda is a spelling recorded in the same trade usage as Salla. It is a wood-type name, and it carries a general referent of the same order: a category of agarwood wood as named by sellers who use this vocabulary. Whether it is a transliteration variant of Salla, a separate name, or a spelling used by one market or one seller is not established here, and the entry does not assert any of the three.
Spelling, language and market
The name is written Salda or salda, with the vowel written as in the Latin letter and the word otherwise in the same Latin script as the rest of this vocabulary. The Gulf usage carries the same letters in Arabic script. The difference from Salla is a single vowel, and single-vowel differences in this trade carry no known weight: they may be a transliteration habit, a different source language, or a separate word.
Attested usage
Salda appears in lists of wood types and in sale descriptions in the same way as the neighbouring names. Because the general referent is shared with Salla, the practical difficulty is not what kind of material is meant but which of the two words a particular seller means when they write it. Where a purchase turns on the difference, the difference has to come from the counterparty in writing.
Named examples and neighbouring spellings
The neighbouring records are Salla and its qualified form Baby Salla, and the wider wood-type family including Mori and Hindi Muri. These appear together in the same listings, which is a commercial arrangement rather than a taxonomy. The three things that would settle the question are ordinary: a seller’s own definition of the word, a record in which one material carries two of these names, and a quotation in which Salla and Salda are used of different lots with the difference explained.
Alternative meanings
The same string is in use as a place name in more than one country, so a reader may read the term as an origin; nothing in the trade usage supports that reading. It is also used as a personal name in South Asian usage, so a description that carries it alone may be naming a person. And in a short trade list a single word can be a house name, a brand or a grade the writer has not defined.
What it does not prove
The name does not establish the species, the resin content, the oil yield, the age, the size or form of the wood, a country of origin, or a grade. It does not establish that Salda and Salla are the same material, and it does not establish that they are different materials either. Both readings remain open, and the entry records the spellings rather than resolving them.
This entry gives the general trade referent of the spelling and its neighbours. It does not establish a synonymy with Salla or with any other spelling, and it does not establish the species, grading, composition, origin or quality of any material described with it.
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- Agarwood: A reviewStates that CITES Appendix II covers all species of Aquilaria and Gyrinops, and reports fifteen Aquilaria species distributed across the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, from Pakistan and India through southern China into Southeast Asia. It does not establish the legal status of any individual shipment in any particular jurisdiction.
- CITES Appendices — what each listing requires for tradeEstablishes what each of the three CITES Appendices requires for trade. Appendix I: international trade is permitted only in exceptional circumstances and cannot be primarily for commercial use, and both an import and an export permit or re-export certificate are required. Appendix II: an export permit or re-export certificate from the country of export is required, and no import permit is needed unless a country's national law requires one. Appendix III: an export permit is required from the country that listed the species, and a certificate of origin is required for exports of a listed species from elsewhere. It does not name any particular species, it does not establish that a shipment complies, and it is not itself a permit.
OudGuide editorial review · 2026-10-20
Reviewed against the cited sources for the general referent of the term, and checked for a question-specific answer. The precise attribution was checked against general trade usage rather than against a single market, and each entry states which parts are local rather than general.