शील

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit शील (śīla).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʃiːl/

शील • (śīl) m (Urdu spelling شیل)

1. character, nature
2. virtuous nature
3. virtuous, moral or decent conduct, morality
4. moral quality or principle

• पंचशील (pañcśīl, “Pancasila”)
• -शील (-śīl, “disposed to”)
• शील-स्वभाव (śīl-svabhāv, “moral character”)
• शीलवान (śīlvān, “of good nature, moral”)
• शीलवती (śīlavtī)
• शैली (śailī, “nature, style, manner”) (vṛddhi derivative)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “शील”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Probably a derivative of शी (śī, “to lie down, rest”), with semantic interpretation as "that (such as morals, customs, and personal philosophy) which rests (firmly or unchangingly) within someone". "the moral ways that rest (within a person or society)".^[1]

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕíː.lɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɕiː.l̪ɐ/

शील • (śī́la) stem, n

1. conduct, disposition, nature, tendency
2. custom, practice, natural or acquired way of living or acting
3. beauty, form
4. (Buddhism) morality, virtue

• पञ्चशील (pañcaśīla)

• Javanese: ꦯꦷꦭ (shīla)
• → Malay: sila (learned)
  • Indonesian: sila
• → Old Javanese: śīla (“moral character; action, conduct”)
  • → Balinese: ᬰᬶᬮ (sila, “conduct”)
• Pali: sīla
  • → Burmese: သီလ (sila.)
  • → Khmer: សីល (səl)
  • → Lao: ສິນ (sin)
  • → Lü: ᦉᦲᧃ (ṡiin)
  • → Northern Thai: ᩈᩦ᩠ᩃ
  • → Shan: သီႇလႃႉ (sìi lâ̰a), သိၼ် (sǐn)
  • → Sinhalese: සීල (sīla)
  • → Thai: สีล (sǐil)
• → Thai: ศีล (sǐin) (learned)

• Monier Williams (1899) “शील”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1079/1.