حال

حَالَ • (ḥāla) I (non-past يَحُولُ (yaḥūlu), verbal noun حَوْل (ḥawl) or حُؤُول (ḥuʔūl))

1. to change, to be transformed
2. to turn, to transform
3. to become
4. to dodge, to evade
5. to elapse, to pass, to go by

حَالَ • (ḥāla) I (non-past يَحُولُ (yaḥūlu), verbal noun حَوْل (ḥawl) or حَيْلُولَة (ḥaylūla) or حُؤُول (ḥuʔūl))

1. to intervene, to come
   • 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

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

1. condition, state, situation, position, status, circumstance, matter, concern, being
2. current circumstances, present, actuality
3. (grammar) present

   Coordinate terms: مَاضٍ (māḍin), مُسْتَقْبَل (mustaqbal)

4. (grammar) a circumstantial expression, adverbial

• 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 (hâl)
  • Turkish: hâl
  • → Albanian: hall
  • → Bulgarian: хал (hal)
  • → Greek: χάλι (cháli)
  • → Romanian: hal
  • → Serbo-Croatian: hȃl／ха̑л
• → 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

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, page 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, page 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.

Borrowed from Arabic حَال (ḥāl).

حال • (hâl) (plural احوال (ahvâl))

1. situation, state, condition

   Synonym: وضعیت (vażʿiyyet)

2. attitude, behaviour

   Synonym: طاورانیش (davranış)

3. manner, method, mode
4. present (this current moment)
5. (grammar) present tense
6. (grammar) noun in the adverbial accusative (in Arabic)
7. power, strength

   Synonyms: طاقت (takat), گوچ (güç), قوت (kuvvet)

8. pain, grief, sorrow, distress

   Synonyms: درد (derd), كدر (keder), صیقندی (sıkındı)

9. quality, property, attribute
10. extasy, trance, in which Sufi mystics go

    Synonym: وجد (vecd)

11. ardent sexual love, passion

• Turkish: hâl
• → Albanian: hall
• → Bulgarian: хал (hal)
• → Greek: χάλι (cháli)
• → Romanian: hal
• → Serbo-Croatian: hȃl／ха̑л

حال • (hâl)

1. now

   Synonym: شمدی (şimdi)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hâl”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1845f.
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 493f.
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 756f.

• Audio (Iran):

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Borrowed from Arabic حَال (ḥāl, “state, condition”).

حال • (hâl) (plural حالات (hâlât) or احوال (ahvâl))

1. condition; state

   حالت خوبه؟ ― hâl-et xub-e? ― How are you? (literally, “Is your state good?”)

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 126:

     بس که می‌خواهم که داند عاشقان را حال چیست
     حال زارم بیند و می‌پرسدم کاحوال چیست

     bas ki mē-xwāham ki dānad āšiqān rā hāl čīst
     hāl-i zāram bīnad u mē-pursadam k-ahwāl čīst

     I so dearly want her to know what the state of lovers are,
     For her to see my wretched state and ask me what the matter is.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

   1. condition of health; (on its own) good health

      استراحت حال او را بهتر نکرده.

      esterâhat hâl-e u râ behtar na-karde.

      Rest has not improved his health.

   2. mood, state of mind

      من حال غذا خوردن ندارم.

      man hâl-e ğazâ xordan na-dâram.

      I'm not in the mood to eat something.

   3. (Sufism) mystical state
2. Short for زمان حال (zamân-e hâl, “(grammar) the present tense”).
3. (in idiomatic expressions) senses, consciousness

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

حال • (hâl)

1. Alternative form of حالا (hâlâ, “now”).

From Arabic حَال (ḥāl).

• IPA^(key): /ħaːl/,

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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/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːl
• Homophone: ہال (hāl)

حال • (hāl) m (formal plural حالات (hālāt), Hindi spelling हाल)

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

• “حال”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “حال”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.