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 [with إِلَى (ʔilā) or accusative ‘into something’]
3. to become [with إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘something’]
4. to dodge, to evade [with عَن (ʕan) ‘something, e.g. a commitment’]
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 [with بَيْنَ (bayna) ‘between two things’]
   • 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) ‘something’]

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)
  • → Ladino: hal
  • → 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^[1] (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^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 444–445
• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “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^[3], 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 (ahval))

1. situation, state, condition

   Synonym: وضعیت (vaz’iyet)

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)
• → Ladino: hal
• → 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^[4] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 493f.
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 756f.

• Audio (Iran):

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Borrowed from Arabic حَال (ḥāl).

حال • (hāl / hâl) (plural حالات (hālāt / hâlât), or احوال (ahwāl / 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 [her] 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 ġazâ xordan na-dâram.

      I'm not in the mood to eat something.

   3. (including Sufism) ecstatic or mystical state
2. short for زمان حال (zamān-i hāl / zamân-e hâl, “(grammar) the present tense”)
3. (in idiomatic expressions) senses, consciousness

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

حال • (hāl / hâl)

1. alternative form of حالا (hālā / hâlâ, “now”)

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

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /ɦäːlᵊ/
• Homophone: ہال (hāl)

حال • (ḥāl) m (plural حالات, Gurmukhi spelling ਹਾਲ)

1. state of being; health (of a person)
2. state, condition (of an item)
3. state in time; present, the present moment
4. state, circumstance
5. status, account (ie. a report or news)
6. ecstatic state

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “حال”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• Bashir, Kanwal (2012) “حال”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
• “ਹਾਲ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

From Arabic حَال (ḥāl).

• IPA^(key): /ħaːl/, [ħæːl]

• Audio (Ramallah):

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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 حَال (hāl), borrowed 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 [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.