lila

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  The play of god’s spirit manifested in the universe; divine play, creative spiritual energy.
 * 2) * 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating, 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.

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) purple, violet

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) lilac

Noun

 * 1) lilac

Etymology
From, borrowed from , from , from , from , ultimately from.

Noun

 * 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

Adjective

 * 1) having a pale purple colour

Etymology 1
From, from , the plural of.

Noun

 * 1) lilac color

Adjective

 * 1) lilac

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

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

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1) to cry, to weep

Etymology
Shortened from in the 19th century, from.

Adjective
or (informal)


 * 1) 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.
 * The adjective is usually considered not comparable.

Adjective

 * 1) purple, violet

Etymology 1
, from, from , the plural of

Noun

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

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  tongue

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) lilac, violet

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) lilac

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to cry, to weep

Etymology
, from, from , from , ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1) lilac
 * 2) lilac

Noun

 * 1) lilac
 * 2)  twit; idiot

Adjective

 * 1) lilac, purple, violet

Etymology
Apparently back-formed from, perhaps from.

Noun

 * 1) goodness

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to cry, to weep

Noun

 * 1) purple, lilac

Adjective

 * 1) purple, lilac

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

Etymology 1
, from, from , from , from , from , ultimately from. .

Noun

 * 1) lilac
 * 2) lilac; pale purple

Noun

 * 1) crucible
 * 2)  pieces of clay or stone
 * 1)  pieces of clay or stone

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to cry, to weep

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to cry, to weep

Noun

 * 1)  tongue

Adjective

 * 1) lilac, purple, violet

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to cry, to weep
 * 2)  to lament, to mourn