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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Ar.

zila

A district or local division, as of a province.

[India]

See also: zillah

Zillah

A female given name.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Genesis 4:19::
  And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Chapter XXVIII
  ON the fifth morning, or rather afternoon, a different step approached - lighter and shorter; and, this time, the person entered the room. It was Zillah; donned in her scarlet shawl, with a black silk bonnet on her head, and a willow-basket swung to her arm.

See also: Zillah

zillah ‎(plural zillahs)