हालत

Hindi

FWOTD – 5 May 2017

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (hālat), from Arabic حَالَة (ḥāla).

Pronunciation

(Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɦɑː.lət̪/, [ɦäː.lɐt̪]

Noun

हालत • (hālat) f (Urdu spelling حالت)

state, condition
हमारा घर बुरी हालत में है, हमको साफ़ करना होगा।
hamārā ghar burī hālat mẽ hai, hamko sāf karnā hogā.
Our house is in a bad state, we will need to clean it up.

Synonyms: अवस्था (avasthā), दशा (daśā)
- Rammanohar Lohiya (2008) Lohiya Ke Vichar, Rajkamal Prakashan Pvt Ltd, →ISBN
  […] इसलिये यह कहना कि आमतौर पर ब्राह्मणों की हालत गिरती जा रहीं है […]
  […] isliye yah kahnā ki āmtaur par brāhmaṇõ kī hālat girtī jā rahī̃ hai […]
  […] for this reason to say the condition of Brahmans is generally worsening is […]

Declension

Declension of *हालत* (fem cons-stem)
	singular	plural
direct	हालत hālat	हालतें, हालात hālatẽ, hālāt
oblique	हालत hālat	हालतों, हालात hālatõ, hālāt
vocative	हालत hālat	हालतो, हालात hālato, hālāt

Related terms

हाल (hāl)

References

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