Smilla

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Gender Feminine

Usage Swedish, German, Literature

Pronounced Pron. SMIL-a

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Meaning & History

Invented by Danish author Peter Høeg (for the heroine of his 1992 novel 'Smilla's Sense of Snow'), who based it on Danish smil "smile" and the Greenlandic name MIILLAARAQ "humming (of an insect)".