حائل

Derived from the active participle of the verb حَالَ (ḥāla, “to change”).

• IPA^(key): /ħaː.ʔil/
• Rhymes: -il

حَائِل • (ḥāʔil) (masculine plural حِيَال (ḥiyāl) or حُول (ḥūl) or حُوَّل (ḥuwwal))

1. altering, changing, being transmuted
2. altered, changed, transmuted
3. becoming black
4. having become black

حَائِل • (ḥāʔil) m (plural حِيَال (ḥiyāl) or حُول (ḥūl) or حُوَّل (ḥuwwal))

1. anything shifting or moving in (مِن (min)) its place
2. anything having shifted or moved in (مِن (min)) its place
3. a female camel (or other animal) not conceiving or becoming pregnant during a set period of years
4. a palm tree not bearing fruit
5. a female baby camel at the time of birth

• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “حائل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate.
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “حائل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

حَائِل • (ḥāʔil) m (plural حَوَائِل (ḥawāʔil))

1. partition, fence, barrier, obstacle, obstruction

• → Persian: حَائِل, حایل (hâyel)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: हाइल (hāil)

    Urdu: حائِل (hāil)

• → Ottoman Turkish: حائل
  • Turkish: hail

• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “حائل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate.
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “حائل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

• حایل (hâyel)

Borrowed from Arabic حَائِل (ḥāʔil).

حائل • (hâ'el)

1. intervening; hindering; coming in between

   منطقه حائل ― mantaqe-ye hâ'el ― buffer zone

حائل • (hâ'el) (plural حوائل (havâ'el))

1. partition; obstacle; buffer
   • c. 1260, Saʿdī, “Ghazal 348”, in دیوان سعدی [The Divān of Saʿdī]‎^[2]:

     پرده چه باشد میان عاشق و معشوق
     سد سکندر نه مانع است و نه حایل

     parda či bāšad miyān-i āšiq u ma'šūq
     sad-i sikandar na māni' ast u na hāyil

     Between the lover and the beloved, what is a veil?
     [For them,] not even Alexander's Wall would be a hindrance or a buffer!

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: हाइल (hāil)

  Urdu: حائِل (hāil)

Borrowed from Classical Persian حائل (hā'il), from Arabic حَائِل (ḥāʔil).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦɑː.ɪl/

حائِل • (hāil) (Hindi spelling हाइल)

1. intervening, interposing, restraining, preventing
2. hindering, standing in the way, disturbing

حائِل • (hāil) m (Hindi spelling हाइल)

1. obstacle, impediment

• “حائل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “حائل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.