Etymology

Leila

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Today it means: A female given name from Arabic. Full definition →

Arabic لَيْلَى
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The story

  1. Arabic · derived fromلَيْلَى
  2. English todayLeila

From Arabic لَيْلَى (laylā). Taken into English usage through nineteenth-century literature.

Words from the same roots

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