लीलाlīlā

लीला (līlā) is a Sanskrit word meaning play, sport, or amusement, sport, play, or child's play, ease or facility in doing something, mere appearance, semblance, or pretence, a disguise or sham, grace, charm, beauty, or elegance. Its 24 recorded definitions are grouped into 7 contexts, among them General Play or Sport, Amorous Play or Lover's Imitation, Appearance or Pretence.

Etymology: E. ली to embrace, क्विप् aff., and ला to get or give, affs. क and टाप् ।
Definitions: 24

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Meanings by context

General Play or Sport

8 definitions

play, sport, or amusement

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Play, sport, pastime, diversion, pleasure, or amusement

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Play, sport, pastime, diversion, or amusement. 2. Playful imitation of a lover. 3. Action easily performed. 4. Mere appearance or semblance. 5. Dissimulation, disguise, or pretence. 6. Charm or grace.

— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Play, sport, or pastime. 2. Wanton sport. 3. Facility in doing anything. 4. Mien or manner. 5. Grace or charm. 6. Pretence, disguise, or sham.

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Play, sport, or pastime. 2. Amorous or wanton sport.

— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Play, sport, or pastime. 2. Grace, beauty, or charm. 3. Ease or facility in doing anything. 4. Appearance, semblance, or pretence.

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Play. 2. An action done without serious effort.

— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary

1. Play, sport, diversion, amusement, or pastime. 2. Wanton sport or amorous pastime. 3. Joking, frivolity, or child's play. 4. Ease or facility in doing anything. 5. Sportive appearance, semblance, dissembling, pretense, or disguise. 6. Air, mien, or manner. 7. Grace, beauty, charm, or loveliness. 8. A species of meter.

लीला (līlā) [Printed book page 0868-c]
लीला (līlā) līlā, f. (supposed by some to be a

corruption of krīḍā; perhaps connected with rt.

1. las or with lelāya), play, sport, diversion, amuse-

ment, pastime; wanton sport, amorous pastime

(shown in the imitation of a lover's gait, manner,

&c.), wantonness; mere sport or play, mere amuse-

ment, joking, frivolity, child's play, ease or facility

in doing anything, (līlayā, out of sport, sportively,

for amusement, as a mere joke, with the greatest

ease, without effort); sportive appearance, semblance,

dissembling, dissimulation, pretence, disguise, sham;

air, mien, manner; grace, beauty, charm, loveliness;

a species of metre, four times ¯˘˘¯˘˘¯˘˘¯˘˘

¯˘˘¯. —Līlā-kamala, am, n. a woman's toy-

lotus, a lotus-flower held in the hand as a plaything.

—Līlā-kara, as, m. a particular metre. —Līlā-

kalaha, as, m. a quarrel or dispute in play, sham-

fight, mock-fight. —Līlā-khela, as, ā, am, moving

or sporting playfully, playful; (am, ā), n. f. a kind

of metre, four times ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯

—Līlāgāra (°lā-āg°) or līlā-gṛha or līlā-geha,

am, n. a pleasure-house, place of amusement or sport.

—Līlāṅga (°lā-an°), as, ī, am, having graceful or

playful limbs (said of a bull &c.). —Līlācala (°lā-

ac°), as, m., N. of a district. —Līlā-tanu, us, f. a

form assumed for mere sport or pleasure. —Līlā-

tāṇḍava-paṇḍita, as, ā, am, skilled in sportive

dances (said of Śiva). —Līlā-tāmarasa, am, n. a

lotus-flower held in the hand as a plaything. —Līlā-

dagdha, as, ā, am, burnt to ashes or consumed

without effort. —Līlādri (°lā-ad°), is, m. = līlā-

cala. —Līlā-naṭana, am, n. a sportive dance.

—Līlā-padma, am, n. a toy-lotus, (see līlā-ka-

mala.) —Līlā-parvata, as, m., N. of a mountain.

—Līlābja (°lā-ab°), am, n. = līlā-kamala. —Lī-

lābharaṇa (°lā-ābh°), am, n. a sham ornament (as

a bracelet made of a string of lotuses). —Līlā-

madhu-kara, as, m., N. of a drama. —Līlā-ma-

nuṣya, as, m. a sham man, man in disguise, one

not really a man. —Līlā-maya, as, ī, am, consisting

of play or amusement, playful, sportive, relating to

play or amusement. —Līlā-mātreṇa, ind. out of

mere sport, in mere play, without the least effort.

—Līlā-mānuṣa-vigraha, as, ā, am, having a

human body merely for amusement, assuming the

shape of a man for a pretext or pretence; (as), m.

epithet of Kṛṣṇa. —Līlāmbuja (°lā-am°), am, n.

= līlā-kamala. —Līlāyudha (°lā-āy°), ās, m. pl.,

N. of a people, (perhaps for nīlāyudha.) —Līlā-

rati, is, f. sportive amusement, sport, amusement.

—Līlāravinda (°lā-ar°), am, n. = līlā-kamala.
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—Līlā-vajra, am, n. an implement or instrument

shaped like a thunderbolt. —Līlā-vat, ān, atī, at,

possessed of grace or beauty, graceful, beautiful,

charming; (atī), f. a beautiful and charming woman,

a wanton woman; N. of Durgā; of the wife of the

Asura Maya; of a merchant's daughter (in the

Hitopadeśa); a kind of metre; N. of a section of

the Siddhānta-śiromaṇi; of a well known treatise

on arithmetic, algebra, and geometry by Bhāskara

Ācārya; of an elementary treatise on the Vaiśeṣika

philosophy (= nyāya-l°, q. v.); of a work on medi-

cine. —Līlāvatāra (°lā-av°), as, m. the descent (of

Viṣṇu on the earth) for his own amusement. —Lī-

lāvadhūta (°lā-av°), as, ā, am, gracefully waved

about. —Līlā-vāpī, f. a pleasure-tank or lake. —Līlā-

veśman, a, n. a pleasure-house; [cf. līlāgāra.]

—Līlā-śuka, as, m. ‘pleasure-parrot,’ N. of the

poet Vilva-maṅgala. —Līlā-sādhya, as, ā, am, to

be effected with ease. —Līlā-svātma-priya, as, m.,

N. of an author held in esteem by the Tāntrikas or

worshippers of Durgā. —Līlodyāna (°lā-ud°), am,

n. a pleasure-garden, pleasure-grounds. [ID=40528]

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Amorous Play or Lover's Imitation

5 definitions

a maiden's playful imitation of her lover

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Amorous pastime or playful sport

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Play, sport, or pastime. 2. Amorous or wanton sport. 3. Playful imitation of a lover's manner. 4. A poetic metre.

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Play, sport, dalliance, or a playful action inspired by love

— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Play, sport, or pastime. 2. Grace, charm, or manner. 3. Amorous sport or feminine action inspired by love. 4. Ease or facility in doing something. 5. Pretence or disguise. 6. A species of the Dandaka metre.

— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Appearance or Pretence

3 definitions

1. Mere appearance, semblance, or pretence. 2. A disguise or sham.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

appearance, semblance, or air

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Pretence, disguise, or sham

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Grace or Charm

3 definitions

grace, charm, beauty, or elegance

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Beauty, charm, grace

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

sportively handsome

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Ease or Facility

2 definitions

1. Sport, play, or child's play. 2. Ease or facility in doing something.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Ease, facility, mere sport, child's play

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Proper Name (Yoginī, Svara śakti)

2 definitions

The name of a Yogini

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a Svara shakti

— The Purana Index

A Type of Metre

1 definition

a kind of metre

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 12 works: Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.