Leila
English
Etymology
From Arabic لَيْلَى (laylā). Taken into English usage through nineteenth-century literature.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈleɪlə/
- Rhymes: -eɪlə
Proper noun
Leila (plural Leilas)
- A female given name from Arabic.
- 1813, Lord Byron, The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale, London: […] T[homas] Davison, […], for John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 12:
- Oh! who young Leila’s glance could read / And keep that portion of his creed / Which saith, that woman is but dust, / A soulless toy for tyrant's lust?
- 1919 October, John Galsworthy, chapter I, in Saint’s Progress, London: William Heinemann, published December 1919, →OCLC, part III, 1 §, page 220:
- "Leila!" she said enigmatically. "Have you seen her?" / "I went to her flat last week with Dad—he likes her." / "Delilah is her real name, you know. All men like her. And Captain Fort is her lover."
Translations
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlei̯lɑ/, [ˈle̞i̯lɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -eilɑ
- Syllabification(key): Lei‧la
Proper noun
Leila
- a female given name from Arabic
- 2019, Riikka Pelo, Kaikki elävä, Teos, →ISBN, page 438:
- Leila katsoi ohitseni koko ajan, niin hän oli tehnyt jo aamulla. Hän oli edesmenneen äitini sukupolvea, paksunahkainen, ankaran työn muovaama, eksoottisesta nimestään huolimatta persjalkainen maatiaisnainen, kuten Aku sanoisi.
- Leila looked past me constantly as she had been doing since the morning. She was from the generation of my deceased mother, thick-skinned, a character shaped by hard work, but despite her exotic name, a 'duck-legged country woman', as Aku would say.
Declension
Inflection of Leila (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Leila | Leilat | ||
genitive | Leilan | Leilojen | ||
partitive | Leilaa | Leiloja | ||
illative | Leilaan | Leiloihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Leila | Leilat | ||
accusative | nom. | Leila | Leilat | |
gen. | Leilan | |||
genitive | Leilan | Leilojen Leilainrare | ||
partitive | Leilaa | Leiloja | ||
inessive | Leilassa | Leiloissa | ||
elative | Leilasta | Leiloista | ||
illative | Leilaan | Leiloihin | ||
adessive | Leilalla | Leiloilla | ||
ablative | Leilalta | Leiloilta | ||
allative | Leilalle | Leiloille | ||
essive | Leilana | Leiloina | ||
translative | Leilaksi | Leiloiksi | ||
abessive | Leilatta | Leiloitta | ||
instructive | — | Leiloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Statistics
- Leila is the 76th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 9,919 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,197 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
See also
Anagrams
French
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lej.la/, /lɛj.la/
Hungarian
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlɛjlɒ]
- Hyphenation: Lei‧la
- Rhymes: -lɒ
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | Leila | Leilák |
accusative | Leilát | Leilákat |
dative | Leilának | Leiláknak |
instrumental | Leilával | Leilákkal |
causal-final | Leiláért | Leilákért |
translative | Leilává | Leilákká |
terminative | Leiláig | Leilákig |
essive-formal | Leilaként | Leilákként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | Leilában | Leilákban |
superessive | Leilán | Leilákon |
adessive | Leilánál | Leiláknál |
illative | Leilába | Leilákba |
sublative | Leilára | Leilákra |
allative | Leilához | Leilákhoz |
elative | Leilából | Leilákból |
delative | Leiláról | Leilákról |
ablative | Leilától | Leiláktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
Leiláé | Leiláké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
Leiláéi | Leilákéi |
Possessive forms of Leila | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | Leilám | Leiláim |
2nd person sing. | Leilád | Leiláid |
3rd person sing. | Leilája | Leilái |
1st person plural | Leilánk | Leiláink |
2nd person plural | Leilátok | Leiláitok |
3rd person plural | Leilájuk | Leiláik |
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈlej.lɐ/ [ˈleɪ̯.lɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈlej.la/ [ˈleɪ̯.la]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈlɐj.lɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈlej.lɐ/
- (Central Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈlej.lɐ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈle.lɐ/
- Hyphenation: Lei‧la
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈleila/ [ˈlei̯.la]
- Rhymes: -eila
- Syllabification: Lei‧la
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