जिला jilā

A ضلع ẓilʻ or ẓilaʻ (v.n. fr. ضلع 'to incline, decline,' &c.), s.m. (but com. f. in Ar.), Side (of a geom. figure, &c.); part; a division (of a province), a district; column (in the page of a book); — the art of speaking with double meaning so that the chain of both senses be uninterrupted through the discourse (syn. talāzum-ě-kalām), a kind of punning: — ẓilāʻ-bandī, s.f. The division of a province into ẓilaʻs or districts: — ẓilaʻ-dār, vulg. ẓileʻ-dār, s.m. An officer who has the charge of the revenues of a ẓilaʻ, superintendent of a district; an officer who makes advances to cultivators and collects rents, &c.; an officer (in the canal-department) who supervises measurements and the distribution of water: — ẓilaʻ-dārī, vulg. ẓileʻ-dārī, s.f. The office or situation of ẓilaʻ-dār.

ज़िला zilā zila: (nm) a district; —अदालत the district court; —अफ़सर a collector;—कचहरी see —अदालत;—जज the district judge; -जेल the district jail; —बोर्ड the district board; —मजिस्ट्रेट the district magistrate.