حال

From the root ح و ل‎ (ḥ-w-l).

حَالَ • (ḥāla) I, non-past يَحُولُ‎‎ (yaḥūlu)

1. to change, to be transformed
2. to shift, to turn, to pass, (transitive or with إِلَى‎ (ʔilā)) to grow into, (with إِلَى‎ (ʔilā)) to become
3. to deviate, to depart, to dodge, to evade (with عَنْ‎ (ʕan))
4. to elapse, to pass, to go by

حَالَ • (ḥāla) I, non-past يَحُولُ‎‎ (yaḥūlu)

1. to intervene, to interfere, to interpose
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 8:24:

     ‏وَٱعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللّٰهَ يَحُولُ بَيْنَ المَرْءِ وَقَلْبِهِ‎

     wa-ʕlamū ʔanna llāha yaḥūlu bayna l-marʔi wa-qalbihi

     And know that God stands between a person and their heart […]

2. to prevent (with دُونَ‎ (dūna))

حَال • (ḥāl) m or f (plural أَحْوَال‎ (ʔaḥwāl))

1. condition, state, situation
2. position, status
3. attitude, bearing, posture
4. circumstance
5. case
6. present, actuality
7. matter, affair, concern

• دَوَامُ الْحَالِ مِنَ الْمُحَالِ‎ (dawāmu l-ḥāli mina l-muḥāli)

• → Azerbaijani: hal
• → Middle Armenian: հալ (hal)
  • Armenian: հալ (hal)
• → Bengali: হাল (hal)
• → Malay: hal
  • Indonesian: hal
• → Ottoman Turkish: حال‎ (hal)
  • Turkish: hâl
  • → Romanian: hal
  • → Bulgarian: хал (hal)
• → Persian: حال‎ (hâl)
  • → Hindi: हाल (hāl)
  • → Punjabi: ਹਾਲ (hāl)
  • → Urdu: حال‎ (hāl)
• → Swahili: hali

Adverbial accusative of حَال‎ (ḥāl, “circumstance”).

حَالَ • (ḥāla)

1. during, right after, immediately upon

From the root ح ل ي‎ (ḥ-l-y).

حَالٍ • (ḥālin) (feminine حَالِيَة‎ (ḥāliya), masculine plural حَوَالٍ‎ (ḥawālin), feminine plural حَالِيَات‎ (ḥāliyāt))

1. active participle of حَلَى‎ (ḥalā).
2. wearing an ornament or jewellery
3. having an ornament or jewellery

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “حال”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 338
• Freytag, Georg (1830), “حال”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 444–445
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “حال”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 673
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “حال”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 251–252
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “حال”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, pages 304

• حاله‎ (ḥāli) (noun only)

From Arabic حال‎ (ḥāl).

حال • (ḥāl) m (plural احوال‎ (aḥwāl))

1. condition; state
2. case; circumstance

حال • (ḥāl-)

1. (with personal suffix) -self; -selves (reflexive pronoun)

   ‏ما بفهم ناس ما هما الا حالا‎

   Ma bifham nās ma hamma illa ḥāla.

   I don't understand people who care only about themselves.

From Arabic حَال‎ (ḥāl, “state, condition”).

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حال • (hâl)

1. condition
2. state
3. health

• ترجمه حال‎ (tarjome-ye hâl)

• حالت‎ (hâlat)

• → Hindi: हाल (hāl)
• → Punjabi: ਹਾਲ (hāl)
• → Urdu: حال‎ (hāl)

From Arabic حَال‎ (ḥāl).

• IPA^(key): /ħaːl/, [ħæːl]

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حال • (ḥāl) m (plural أحوال‎ (ʔaḥwāl))

1. state, condition
2. case, instance

حال • (ḥāl-)

1. (with personal suffix) -self, -selves (reflexive pronoun)

   Synonym: نفس‎ (nafs-)

• لحال‎ (la-ḥāl-, “by oneself”)

Borrowed from Classical Persian حال‎ (hāl), from Arabic حَال‎ (ḥāl).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦɑːl/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /ɦɑːl/
• Rhymes: -ɑːl
• Homophone: ہال‎ (hāl)

حال • (ḥāl) m (plural حالات‎, Hindi spelling हाल)

1. state, condition
2. (time) present
3. status
4. circumstance

• “حال”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “حال”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.