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What does ny name mean? I don't even think it exists. My parents told me it's an asian indian name that means characteristic. hah!
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shIla in Sanskrit means habit, custom, or nature; by synechdoche, it refers virtue or moral character. As an isolated word, it has not been used, for a long time, as a first name in the few Indian languages that I know. The feminine form, shIlA, is far more common; though I do not know how much the English Sheila contributed to the rise of the Indian Sheela, i.e. though, today, parents do connect the name with the Sanskrit word, it is not clear that it was so when the name started being used recently.
Both these masculine and feminine names are attested alone in Sanskrit (see, e.g. Rajatarngini for the male name), but more commonly as compounds with other words (e.g. shIlAditya).
Both these masculine and feminine names are attested alone in Sanskrit (see, e.g. Rajatarngini for the male name), but more commonly as compounds with other words (e.g. shIlAditya).
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There is an Indian name, Sheela, which means "character, conduct" which I expect is the name your parents were thinking of.
Sheel could also be a nickname for Sheila (which is an Anglicised form of the Irish Sile, which is the Irish form of Cecilia!)
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:-)
♦ Chrisell ♦
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
Sheel could also be a nickname for Sheila (which is an Anglicised form of the Irish Sile, which is the Irish form of Cecilia!)
Click on any of the hyperlinks for more details on these names.
:-)
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
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