हलक़ा

• हल्क़ा (halqā)

Borrowed from Classical Persian حلقه (halqa), from Arabic حَلْقَة (ḥalqa).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɦəl.qɑː/, [ɦɐl.qäː], /ɦəl.kɑː/, [ɦɐl.käː]

हलक़ा • (halqā) m (Urdu spelling حلقہ)

1. circle

   सियासी हलक़े ― siyāsī halqe ― political circles

2. ring, hoop, loop
3. company or group (as of people)
4. an area delimited by a boundary line; zone, region, area

   Synonyms: अंचल (añcal), ज़ोन (zon), इलाक़ा (ilāqā), क्षेत्र (kṣetra)

5. (law, Jammu-Kashmir) an area comprising a village or contiguous number of villages as may be determined by the election authority^[1]

→ English: halqa

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “halqā”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press