Etymology

nillae

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Today it means: A kind of blue cotton cloth from India. Full definition →

Hindi नीला
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  1. Hindi · borrowed fromनीला“blue”
  2. English todaynillae

From Hindi नीला (nīlā, “blue”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.