lila

Transliteration of Sanskrit लीला (līlā).

lila (uncountable)

1. (Hinduism) The play of god’s spirit manifested in the universe; divine play, creative spiritual energy.
   • 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 11:

     His face shone with joy when he read good books, thought new thoughts, heard news about the country's welfare, or when God's lila filled his mind.

• Lail

From French lilas. Cognate with German lila.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪ.lɐ/, /ˈliː.lɐ/

lila

1. purple, violet

   Synonym: violett

From lilà.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈli.lə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈli.la/

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lila (masculine and feminine plural liles)

1. lilac

lila m (plural liles)

1. lilac (color)

• “lila” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Spanish lila, borrowed from French lilac, from Arabic لِيلَك‎ (līlak), from Persian نیلک‎ (nilak), from نیل‎ (nil, “dark blue”), ultimately from Sanskrit नीला (nīlā, “dark blue”).

• Hyphenation: li‧la

lila

1. lilac; a large shrub of the genus Syringa
2. a flower of the lilac shrub
3. a pale purple colour, the colour of some lilac flowers

lila

1. having a pale purple colour

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪla]

lila

1. inflection of lít:
   1. feminine singular past participle
   2. neuter plural past participle

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.laː/

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• Hyphenation: li‧la

From French lilas, from lilacs, the plural of lilac.

lila n (plural lila's, diminutive lilaatje n)

1. lilac (color)

lila (invariable, comparative meer lila, superlative meest lila)

1. lilac

• donkerlila n & adjective
• lila-achtig (adjective)
• lilablauw n & adjective
• lilabruin n & adjective
• lilakleurig
• lichtlila n & adjective

• indigo
• mauve
• paars, purper
• violet

lila

From Classical Malay ليلا‎ (“lela, lila”).

• lilla

lila ? (plural lila's, diminutive lilaatje n)

1. A small, even shoulder-portable type of (colonial?) field gun, notably used in the East Indies

From Zulu -lila, from Proto-Bantu *-dɪ̀da.

lila

1. to cry, to weep

• IPA^(key): /ˈli(ː)lɑ/, [ˈli(ː)lɑ]
• Rhymes: -ilɑ
• Syllabification^(key): li‧la

lila (comparative lilempi or lilampi, superlative liloin or lilin)

1. Alternative form of liila

lila

1. Alternative form of liila

• -illa, Alli, alli

Shortened from lilafarben in the 19th century, from French lilas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːla/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪla/ (regional; overall rather rare)

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• Hyphenation: li‧la

lila (indeclinable) or (informal)
lila (strong nominative masculine singular lilaner or (rare) lilaer, not comparable)

1. colored lilac, purple, violet

   Synonyms: fliederfarben; (at least in common usage) violett

• The adjective is usually treated as invariable in the formal standard language, thus neither declined forms nor comparation forms are used.
• In less formal style and in the vernacular, lila has normal inflected forms. An -n- is then infixed before (vocalic) endings. Additionally, it has also inflected forms without an infix. Compare the same in rosa.
• The adjective is usually considered not comparable.

• Lila n

• “lila” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “lila” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “lila” in Duden online
• lila on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• IPA^(key): [ˈlilɒ]

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• Hyphenation: li‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

lila (comparative lilább, superlative leglilább)

1. purple, violet (color)

• lila in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Proto-South Sulawesi *dilaq, from Proto-Austronesian *dilaq.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlila]

lila (Lontara spelling ᨒᨗᨒ)

1. (anatomy) tongue

From French lilas.

lila m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. lilac (color)

From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ̀da.

-lila

1. to cry, to weep

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From French lilac, from Arabic لِيلَك‎ (līlak), from Persian نیلک‎ (nilak), from نیل‎ (nil, “dark blue”), ultimately from Sanskrit नीला (nīlā, “dark blue”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlila/ [ˈli.la]
• Rhymes: -ila
• Syllabification: li‧la

lila f (plural lilas)

1. lilac (flower)
2. lilac (bush)

• → Cebuano: lila
• → Tagalog: lila

lila m (plural lilas)

1. lilac (color)
2. (dated) twit; idiot

lila (plural lilas)

1. lilac, purple, violet

• morado
• violeta

• “lila”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Apparently back-formed from lila na fila (“for good or bad”), perhaps from Arabic لَعَلَّ‎ (laʕalla).

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lila (n class, plural lila)

1. goodness

   Synonym: uzuri

• Baldi, Sergio (2020-11-30) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 212 No. 1911

From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ̀da.

-lila

1. (intransitive) to cry, to weep

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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lila ?

1. lilac (color)

lila

1. purple, violet

• illa

Borrowed from Spanish lila (“lilac”). Doublet of nila.

• Hyphenation: li‧la
• IPA^(key): /ˈlila/, [ˈli.lɐ]

lila (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜎ)

1. lilac (plant and flower)
2. (color) lilac; pale purple

   lila:  

• Hyphenation: li‧la
• IPA^(key): /ˈlilaʔ/, [ˈli.lɐʔ]

lilà (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜎ)

1. crucible

   Synonym: krisol

2. (by extension) pieces of clay or stone (used as a temporary stove)

   Synonyms: tungko, tungkuan

From Classical Malay ليلا‎ (lela, lila).

• IPA^(key): [ˈli.la]

lila

1. the lela, lila

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill

From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ̀da.

lila

1. to cry, to weep

lila

1. genitive singular of lil

From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ̀da.

-lila

1. (intransitive) to cry, to weep

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

lila

1. (anatomy) tongue

lila (comparative dehana lila, superlative tewr lila)

1. colored lilac, purple, violet

From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ̀da.

-lila

1. (intransitive) to cry, to weep
2. (intransitive) to lament, to mourn