As a deity name
Name 69 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 698 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 443 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
As a Hindi name
नील · nīl · adj.
(f. -ā, or -ī), Blue; dark blue, black — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1168
नील · nīl · adj.
& coll. s.m. Ten billions — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1168
नील · masculine
Nile (a large river in Africa, usually considered to be the longest river in the world; its basin covers Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan, and Egypt, flowing north through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea)
नील · masculine
blue, indigo; indigo
Śabdasāgara also records: [वि॰ स्त्री॰ नीला, नीली] नीले रंग का । गहरे आसमानी रंग का
a Hindi word of Persian origin; it is not Sanskrit — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Classical Persian نیل (nīl), from Arabic النِيل (an-nīl), from Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi नील — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit नील (nīla).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
nīla mf(ā or ī; cf. Pāṇ. iv, 1, 42, Vārtt., Vām. v, 2, 48)n. of a dark colour, (esp.) d˚-blue or d˚-green or black, RV. &c. &c.
dyed with indigo, Pāṇ. iv, 2, 2, Vārtt. 2, Pat.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a species of bird the blue or hill Maina
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (9)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "nīla" is the vocative of "nīlā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
nīla mf(ā or ī; cf. Pāṇ. iv, 1, 42, Vārtt., Vām. v, 2, 48)n. of a dark colour, (esp.) d˚-blue or d˚-green or black, RV. &c. &c.
dyed with indigo, Pāṇ. iv, 2, 2, Vārtt. 2, Pat.
nīla m. the sapphire, L. (with maṇi, R. iii, 58, 26)
the Indian fig-tree (= vaṭa), L.
= nīla-vṛkṣa, L.
nīlā (ā), f. the indigo plant (Indigofera Tinctoria), L. (cf. nīlī)
a species of Boerhavia with blue blossoms, L.
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