Crossword clues for leila
leila
- Bulwer-Lytton novel
- Byron lass
- Girl I left in meadow
- Girl's name
- Priestess in Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers"
- Girl in Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers"
- Soprano role in Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers"
- ZZ Top "El Loco" song about a girl
- Heroine of Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers"
- Girl-inspired ZZ Top "El Loco" song
- ZZ Top "El Loco" song about a girl?
- Rescued orphan in Byron's "Don Juan"
- Hyams of "Freaks"
- Girl saved by Don Juan
- Girl in Byron's ''Don Juan''
- Don Juan's rescuee
- Character in Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers"
- Actress Hyams
- Actress Arcieri of "A Perfect Fit"
- "Don Juan" girl
- J.P. Donleavy novel
- 20's-30's actress Hyams
- Bizet opera priestess
- Girl rescued by Don Juan
- Antonio Fogazzaro novel
- Hyams of 1920s-'30s films
- Bizet priestess
- Heroine in Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers"
- Actress Hyams of 1920's-30's film
- Girl's name meaning "night" in Arabic
- "The Pearl Fishers" soprano
- Orphan girl in Byron's "Don Juan"
- Role in Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers"
- Title woman in a J. P. Donleavy novel
- Orphan in Byron's "Don Juan"
- Girl in Byron's "Don Juan"
- Foreign currency unit worth about a third of a dollar
- "The Pearl Fishers" priestess
- Byron heroine
- Character in Byron's "Don Juan"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, from Arabic Laylah, literally "dark as night," from laylah "night."
Wikipedia
Leila may refer to:
- Leila (name), female given name
- Leila Arab, Iranian musician now living in the United Kingdom, known simply as Leila
- Leila (1996 film), 1996 Iranian film
- Leïla (2001 film), 2001 Danish film
- "Leila" (song), 1981 song by American rock band ZZ Top, from their album El Loco
- Leila, the Arabic name for Perejil Island
- Leila, Estonia, village in Kullamaa Parish, Lääne County, Estonia
- 3397 Leyla, a Mars-crossing asteroid
Leila (, also Romanized as Leyla, Leilā, and Leylā) is a 1996 Iranian film directed by Dariush Mehrjui.
Leila is a feminine given name in the Iranian, Hebrew and Arabic languages. It is often pronounced as ″Lee-lah″, ″Lay-lah″ or ″Lie-lah″
Leila is the Arabic and Hebrew word for "night", laylah (written as ليلة in Arabic). The identification of the word "night" as the name of an angel originates with the interpretation of "Rabbi Yochanan" (possibly Yochanan ben Zakkai, c. 30–90 AD) who read "At night [Abraham] and his servants deployed against them and defeated them” (Genesis 14.14, JPS) as "by [an angel called] night" ( Sanhedrin 96a).
The story of Qays and Layla or Layla and Majnun is based on the romantic poems of Qais Ibn Al-Mulawwah قيس بن الملوح, who was nicknamed Majnoon Layla (Arabic for madly in love with Layla) to his cousin Layla Al-Amiriah ليلى العامرية in 7th century Arabia, his poems are considered the paragon of unrequited chaste love, they later became a popular romance in medieval Iran, and use of the name spread accordingly; the name also gained popularity further afield in the Muslim World, amongst Turkic peoples and in the Balkans and India.
Variant spellings include Laela, Laelah, Laila, Layla, Leïla, Leighla, Lejla and Leyla.
In the Nordic countries, Laila or Lajla (pronounced lie-lah) is derived from the Sami name Láilá, the Sami variant of Helga which means holy.
"Leila" is a song by American rock band ZZ Top, from their 1981 album El Loco.
The song is a ballad with blues rock influences.
Leïla is a 2001 Danish film directed by Gabriel Axel.
Usage examples of "leila".
There was character in Leila Lynch, and she had lived an interesting life from a certain point of view.
I was Leila Pierson once upon a time, and I often think of you and wonder what you are like now, and what your girls are like.
The scenic sense derived therefrom had a certain poignancy, the more so because the tall child whom he met there did not drink it, and her father seemed but to wet his lips, so that Leila and he had all the rest.
But Leila, who hated dining by daylight, had soon drawn curtains of a deep blue over them.
He remembered Leila brewing Turkish coffee--very good, and how beautiful her white arms looked, hovering about the cups.
When Leila found herself with Fort in that loneliness to which she had been looking forward, she was overcome by an access of nervous silence.
IV When Leila opened her door to Edward Pierson, her eyes were smiling, and her lips were soft.
And, going to her little sideboard, Leila stealthily extracted a pint bottle of some champagne which Jimmy Fort had sent in, and took it with two glasses and a corkscrew into her bedroom.
From the look on her face rather than from her words, the full reality of her meaning came to Leila, vanished, came again.
We had Leila in to dinner again on Saturday, and a man called Fort came too.
She passed the church opposite to the flats where Leila lived, and running suddenly into a tall man coming round the corner, saw Fort.
One day, in a queer access of compunction, he had made Leila an offer of marriage.
How could he have been such a base fool, as to have committed himself to Leila on an evening when he had actually been in the company of that child?
And Leila soothed him, innocent as he was of any knowledge of her latest aberration, and perhaps conscious that she herself was not too happy.
He had not even the feeling that it was his duty to try and save Leila by persuading her to marry Fort.