nīla

[apte] a. (lā-lī f.; the former in relation to clothes &c., the latter in relation to animals, plants &c.) 1 Blue, dark-blue; nīlasnigdhaḥ śrayati śikharaṃ nūtanastoyavāhaḥ U. 1. 33. --2 Dyed with indigo. --laḥ 1 The dark-blue or black colour. --2 Sapphire. --3 The Indian fig tree. --4 N. of a monkey-chief in the army of Rāma. --5 ‘The blue mountain’, N. of one of the principal ranges of mountains. --6 A kind of bird, the...