As a deity name
Name 660 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
खिलाना
to cause to eat, to feed
खिलाना
to cause to play
Platts (p. 878) also records: of khilnā, q.v.), part. (f. -ī), Opened, expanded, blown (as a flower)
Cited formation "खिला" is खिल + -आ: खिल means "= kīl, q.v", 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 "खिला" is खिलना + -आ: खिलना means "to flower, blossom, bloom", 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
Cited formation "खिला" is खिल + -आ: खिल means "= kīl, q.v", 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
“Hindi verb set खाना (khānā) खिलाना (khilānā) खिलवाना (khilvānā) Causative form of खाना (khānā) with the suffix -लाना (-lānā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a compendium, compilation (esp. of hymns and prayers) — feminine form of khila
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "khilā" is the feminine form of "khila" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
khila as, m. (n., L.) a piece of waste or uncultivated land situated between cultivated fields, desert, bare soil, AV. vii, 115, 4; ŚBr. viii; ŚāṅkhBr.; Kauś.
khila (am), n. ‘a space not filled up, gap’, that which serves to fill up a gap, supplement (of a book &c.), additional hymn appended to the regular collection, Mn. iii, 232; MBh. i; VāyuP.; ŚivaP. &c.
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