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zillah

zillah noun: a district or local division, as of a province, in India.

Noun

zillah (plural zillahs)

  1. A district or local division, as of a province, in India.
    • And it is hereby enacted, that in any zillah, in which the Governor in Council of Fort St. George deems it expedient to establish the zillah court, and the court or courts under subordinate judges or principal sudder ameens, at separate stations, it shall be competent to the said Governor in...1843, “Act No. VII. of 1843”, in East India. Acts Passed by the Honourable the President of the Council of India, and by the Right Honourable the Governor-General, for 1843; […] (Accounts and Papers...

Proper noun capitalized: Zillah

Zillah

  1. A female given name from Hebrew.
    • 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.1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC
  2. (Torah) The wife of Lamech.
    • And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:19

zillah meaning in Tamil and Punjabi

zillah in Tamil

மாவட்டம், ஜில்லா

zillah in Punjabi

zillah
ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ zilhā

Forms of zillah

pluralzillahs

Origin of zillah

Borrowed from Hindi ज़िला (zilā) and Urdu ضلع (zilā), from Classical Persian ضلع (zil', “side, edge”), from Arabic ضِلْع (ḍilʕ, “side, edge, division”). Cognate with Nepali जिल्ला (jillā) and Marathi जिल्हा (jilhā).

From Hebrew צִלָּה (“shade”).

Questions about zillah

What does zillah mean?
Zillah means a district or local division, as of a province, in India.
What is zillah in Tamil?
Zillah in Tamil is மாவட்டம், ஜில்லா. See Zillah meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is zillah?
Zillah can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of zillah?
The plural of zillah is zillahs.

Words near zillah in the dictionary

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  3. zilla
  4. zilladar
  5. zilladars
  6. zillah
  7. zillahs
  8. zillas
  9. zillennial
  10. zillennials
  11. Ziller

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zillah (page history and authors); Zillah (page history and authors); zillah (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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