English

Proper noun

Leela

1. A female given name used in India, a spelling variant of Lila.
   • 1961 V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Penguin Books 1977, ISBN 0140030255, page 366:

     Dorothy's daughters were of exceptional beauty and the sisters could complain only that the Hindi names Dorothy had chosen - Mira, Leela, Lena - were meant to pass as Western ones.

Anagrams

• allee

Spanish

Verb

leela

1. Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of leer, lee and the pronoun la.