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English

Etymology

Transliteration of Sanskrit ???? (l?l?).

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• Lail

Catalan

Etymology

From lilà.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?li.l?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?li.la/

Adjective

lila (masculine and feminine plural liles)

1. lilac

Noun

lila f (plural liles)

1. lilac (flower)

Noun

lila m (plural liles)

1. lilac (color)

See also

Further reading

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

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish lila, borrowed from French lilac, from Arabic ??????? (l?lak), from Persian ????? (nilak), from ???? (nil, “dark blue”), ultimately from Sanskrit ???? (n?l?, “dark blue”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: li?la

Noun

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

Adjective

lila

1. having a pale purple colour

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li.la?/
• Hyphenation: li?la

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

1. lilac (color)

Adjective

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

1. lilac

Inflection

Derived terms

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

See also

• indigo
• mauve
• paars, purper
• violet

Etymology 2

Unknown, possibly oriental

Alternative forms

• lilla

Noun

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

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

Fanagalo

Etymology

From Zulu -lila, from Proto-Bantu *-d??da.

Verb

lila

1. to cry, to weep

Finnish

Adjective

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

1. Alternative form of liila

Declension

Noun

lila

1. Alternative form of liila

Declension

Anagrams

• -illa, Alli, alli

German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li?la/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /?l?la/ (regional; overall rather rare)
• Hyphenation: li?la

Adjective

lila (not comparable)

1. colored lilac, purple, violet

Usage notes

• 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.

Declension

Inflected forms (with infixed -n-):

Inflected forms (without an infix):

Synonyms

• fliederfarben
• violett (at least in common usage)

Derived terms

• Lila n

Further reading

• “lila” in Duden online
• “lila” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lil?]
• Hyphenation: li?la
• Rhymes: -l?

Adjective

lila (comparative lilább, superlative leglilább)

1. purple, violet (color)

Declension

Derived terms

• lilahagyma

See also

Makasar

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq, from Proto-Austronesian *dilaq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lila]

Noun

lila (Lontara spelling ???)

1. tongue

Romanian

Etymology

From French lilas.

Adjective

lila m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. lilac (color)

Declension

Southern Ndebele

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-d??da.

Verb

-lila

1. to cry, to weep

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Etymology

From French lilac, from Arabic ??????? (l?lak), from Persian ????? (nilak), from ???? (nil, “dark blue”), ultimately from Sanskrit ???? (n?l?, “dark blue”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lila/, [?li.la]

Noun

lila f (plural lilas)

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

Noun

lila m (plural lilas)

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

Adjective

lila (plural lilas)

1. lilac, purple, violet

See also

• morado
• violeta

Further reading

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

Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic [Term?].

Pronunciation

Noun

lila (n class, plural lila)

1. goodness

   Synonym: uzuri

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-d??da.

Verb

-lila

1. (intransitive) to cry, to weep

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

lila ?

1. lilac (color)

Adjective

lila

1. purple, violet

Anagrams

• illa

Tagalog

Borrowed from Spanish lila (“lilac”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???l?/

Noun

lila

1. (color) purple; violet

Venda

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-d??da.

Verb

lila

1. to cry, to weep

Volapük

Noun

lila

1. genitive singular of lil

Xhosa

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-d??da.

Verb

-lila

1. (intransitive) to cry, to weep

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Yami

Noun

lila

1. (anatomy) tongue

Zazaki

Adjective

lila (comparative dehana lila, superlative tewr lila)

1. colored lilac, purple, violet

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-d??da.

Verb

-lila

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

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “lila”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “lila (6.3)”

Italian

Verb

tessa

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of tessere
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of tessere
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of tessere
4. third-person singular imperative of tessere

Anagrams

• asset, sesta, stesa, tasse

Japanese

Romanization

tessa

1. R?maji transcription of ???