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Lila is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
There are many possible explanations for the name Lila that are not mutually exclusive. It can come from the Sanskrit word purple (लीला) and mean "game, pleasure". The Indian name Lila is often spelled Leela .
Another explanation is: The German term “lila” did not exist until the Middle Ages, it was only brought from Sanskrit via Persian and the Arabic word for lilac (lilak) to Spain and from there to France during the Crusades . From the French loan word "lilas" (the plant lilac ) developed from it, the German word was finally developed through phonetic transcription.
In the English-speaking world, purple is also another spelling of the name Leyla . Purple can also be seen as a modification of the names Lilli and Lilith . In the German-speaking world, the name is known from Max Frisch's novel Mein Name sei Gantenbein , in which the main female character bears this first name.
The singspiel Lila by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from 1777 with the title character who had gone mad from lovesickness was only performed publicly again in 1995, after more than 170 years.
Well-known namesake
First name
- Lila Downs (* 1968), Mexican-American singer
- Lila Dulali (1938–2005), Indian theater and film actress
- Lila Gleitman (* 1929), American developmental psychologist, cognitive scientist and psycholinguist
- Lila Konomara (* 1960), Greek author and translator
- Lila Lapanja (* 1994), American ski racer
- Lila Lee (1901–1973), American actress
- Lila Majumdar ( লীলা মজুমদার , Līlā Majumadār ; 1908–2007), Bengali writer
- Lila Marangou ( Ευαγγελία "Λίλα" Μαραγκού Evangelia "Lila" Marangou ; * 1938), Greek classical archaeologist
- Lila O'Neale (1886–1948), American cultural anthropologist and ethnologist
- Lila Rocco (also Lyla Rocco and Lilla Rocco; 1933-2015), Italian actress
- Lila Tretikov (* 1978), US executive director
- Lila Wallace (actually Lila Bell Acheson; 1889–1984), American publisher
stage name
- Lilâ Gürmen (* 1966), actress of Turkish origin
family name
- Andi Lila (* 1986), Albanian football player
- Elsa Lila (* 1981), Albanian singer
- Mimoza Kusari-Lila (* 1975), Kosovar politician
Individual evidence
- ↑ Purple at vornames-weltweit.de
- ↑ Purple (1) at behindthename.com
- ↑ Purple (2) at behindthename.com
- ↑ Goethe's Schriften, Volume 6. 1790, p. 223ff ; Martin Huber: Staged Bodies. Theater as a cultural model in Goethe's Purple Festival. goethezeitportal.de, June 21, 2004