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.

• malanga lila (etymologically unrelated)

• Lail

From French lilas. Cognate with German lila.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪ.lɐ/, /ˈliː.lɐ/

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lila

1. purple, violet (color/colour)

   Synonym: violett

From lilà.

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

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lila m or f (masculine and feminine plural liles)

1. lilac

lila m (plural liles)

1. lilac (color/colour)

• “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/color, 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 active participle
   2. neuter plural past active 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

• → Indonesian: lila

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)lɑ̝]
• 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

• “lila”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• -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. lilac, purple, violet (color/colour)

   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/colour)

• 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

• IPA^(key): /li.la/
• Rhymes: -la
• Hyphenation: li‧la

Borrowed from Dutch lila (“lilac”), from French lilas, from lilacs, the plural of lilac

lila (first-person possessive lilaku, second-person possessive lilamu, third-person possessive lilanya)

1. lilac:
   1. a pale purple color, the color of some lilac flowers.

      lila:  

      Synonym: ungu lembut (Standard Malay)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

lila (plural lila-lila, first-person possessive lilaku, second-person possessive lilamu, third-person possessive lilanya)

1. (archaic) small cannons made of copper or bronze

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lila

1. Dated spelling of rela.

• “lila” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
• Pusat Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa (1984) Daftar Istilah Warna [Colour Terms List] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈlila]

lila (Lontara spelling ᨒᨗᨒ)

1. (anatomy) tongue

Borrowed from German Lila.[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.la/

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• Rhymes: -ila
• Syllabification: li‧la

lila (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. lilac, violet (color/colour)

   Synonyms: jasnofioletowy, liliowy

   lila:  

• lila in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lila in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “lila”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “lila”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “lila”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 741

Borrowed from French lilas.

lila m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. lilac (color/colour)

From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ̀da.

-lila

1. to cry, to weep

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Borrowed 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/colour)
2. (dated) twit; idiot

lila m or f (masculine and feminine 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 November 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 n

1. purple, lilac (color/colour)

lila (comparative mer lila, superlative mest lila)

1. purple, lilac (color/colour)

Between blue and red and blueish rather than reddish (compare purpur).

• gredelin
• purpur
• violett

• → Finnish: liila, lila

• lila in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• lila in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• lila in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• illa

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

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

lila (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜎ)

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

   lila:  

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

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

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• 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. lilac, purple, violet (color/colour)

From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ̀da.

-lila

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