köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀧𑀺𑀆𑀭 m (piāra, “love”), from Sanskrit प्रिय n (priya, “love, kindness, favour, pleasure”) + कार (kāra, “act”) (compare with the actual compound प्रियकार (priyakāra, “agreeable, doing a kindness”, adjective)).
love (positive romantic feeling for a specific person) · love (positive non-romantic feeling for someone or something, devotion) · love (deep interest in something)
çekim: tamlayan mīlestības
eş: mīla
köken: From an earlier unattested adjective *mīlests (compare mielasts (“banquet, feast”), also Russian ми́лость (mílostʹ, “compassion, mercy, grace”)) + -ība, maybe following the example of mīlība (“tenderness, sweetness”).