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Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian حلیه (hiliya), itself from Arabic حِلِيَة (ḥiliya).
Pronunciation
Noun
حُلِیَہ • (huliya) m (Hindi spelling हुलिया)
- demeanour or more strictly - the countenance, face
- Synonyms: شَکَل (śakal), (loosely) چِہْرَہ (cihra)
اَپْنا حُلِیَہ دیکھو!- apnā huliya dekho!
- Look at you!
- (literally, “Look at your huliya (countenance/self/yourself)!”)
- (by extension) the description of a person (ie. to identify or recognise a person)
- (rare or obsolete) jewellery, ornament, decoration (particularly of gold, silver, jewels etc.)
Declension
| Declension of حلیہ
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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حُلِیَہ (huliyah)
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حُلِیے (huliye)
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| oblique
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حُلِیے (huliye)
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حُلِیوں (huliyõ)
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| vocative
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حُلِیے (huliye)
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حُلِیو (huliyo)
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Further reading
- “حلیہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “huliya”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “حليه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “حليه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 586