mila
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of mila
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
name
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A female given name from the Slavic languages.
“At the end of the evening―and remember it was a sad occasion―Auntie Fanny says, 'Shoiley, do me a favour, ask Myla'―she never called her Mila―'for the recipe.'”
“My name is Mila. Mila is the name others gave me. The ones who found me. Mila is miracle.”
“And she persisted in calling me Mila after I had decreed that people should now use my full name: Sharmila.”
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name
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A female given name from the Slavic languages.
“At the end of the evening―and remember it was a sad occasion―Auntie Fanny says, 'Shoiley, do me a favour, ask Myla'―she never called her Mila―'for the recipe.'”
“My name is Mila. Mila is the name others gave me. The ones who found me. Mila is miracle.”
“And she persisted in calling me Mila after I had decreed that people should now use my full name: Sharmila.”
- A transliteration of the Bulgarian, Macedonian, or Russian female given name Ми́ла (Míla)
- The capital city of Mila Province, located in northeastern Algeria.
- A locality in the Snowy Monaro council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From a diminutive in many Slavic languages Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian, etc.) of female given names containing the element Mil-, -mila ("grace, beloved"), such as Ludmila, Milena, Milica, and of the cognates of Emily. Also from Spanish Mila.
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