As a Hindi name
हेला · noun · feminine
तुच्छ समझना । अवज्ञा । तिरस्कार · ध्यान न देना । बेपरवाई · खेल । खेलवाड़ । क्रीड़ा — Śabdasāgara
हेला · noun · masculine
पुकार । चिल्लाहट । हाँक । हल्ला — Śabdasāgara
हेला · helā · s.m.
Shove, push — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1245
हेला · helā · s.f.
Disregard, neglect, disrespect, contempt — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1245
हेला · feminine
disregard, neglect, carelessness, indifference
Cited formation "हेला" is हेल + -आ: हेल means "(dialec.) A basket-full", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "हेला" is हेलना + -आ: हेलना means "To swim", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "हेला" is हेल + -आ: हेल means "(dialec.) A basket-full", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“From Sanskrit हेला (helā, “flickering, movement, shaking”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
sport, pastime, carelessness, ease, facility (ibc. and instr. sg. or pl. ‘in sport’, ‘sportively’, ‘easily’, ‘at once’; tṛṇa-helayā, ‘as if it were a straw’), &c.
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Dictionary citations
helā f. (ifc. f(ā). ) disrespect, contempt (cf. avahelā)
wanton sport, frivolity, amorous dalliance (of women; in dram. one of the 20 natural graces [sattva-ja alaṃkāra] of the Nāyikā), Daśar.; Sāh. &c.
sport, pastime, carelessness, ease, facility (ibc. and instr. sg. or pl. ‘in sport’, ‘sportively’, ‘easily’, ‘at once’; tṛṇa-helayā, ‘as if it were a straw’), Kāv.; Kathās. &c.
moonlight, L.
= prastāva, L.
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