halal

See also: halál

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic حَلَال (ḥalāl).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɑːl

Adjective

halal (not comparable)

1. (Islam) Permissible, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.
   • 2014, Professor Nilüfer Göle, Islam and Public Controversy in Europe →ISBN, page 176:

     […] broadening the demand for halal across all product categories, not just in their consumption of meat products […]

2. (of food) Fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs.

Synonyms

• nonharam

Antonyms

• haram

Derived terms

• halalization
• halalize
• halalness
• halal snack pack
• nonhalal
• unhalal

 

Translations

in general, according to Muslim customs, permissible to have or do

• Arabic: حَلَال (ar) (ḥalāl)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 清真 (zh) (qīngzhēn)

• Danish: halal
• Hindi: हलाल (hi) (halāl)
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• Persian: حلال (fa) (halâl)
• Russian: халя́льный (ru) (xaljálʹnyj)
• Swahili: halali (sw)
• Turkish: helal (tr)

fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs

• Arabic: حَلَال (ar) (ḥalāl)
• Armenian: հալալ (hy) (halal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 清真 (zh) (qīngzhēn)

• Danish: halal
• Dutch: halal (nl)
• Esperanto: halala
• Finnish: halal (fi)
• French: halal (fr)
• German: halal (de)
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: חלאל
• Hindi: हलाल (hi) (halāl)
• Hungarian: halal
• Indonesian: halal (id)
• Japanese: ハラール (harāru)
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• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 할랄 (hallal)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Malay: halal
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: हलाल (halāla)
• Persian: حلال (fa) (halâl)
• Portuguese: halal
• Russian: халя́льный (ru) (xaljálʹnyj)
• Spanish: halal
• Swahili: halali (sw)
• Swedish: halal (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: helal (tr)

Verb

halal (third-person singular simple present halals, present participle halaling or halalling, simple past and past participle halaled or halalled)

1. (transitive) To make halal.

See also

• kosher

Anagrams

• Allah

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Aleut

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhalal/

Verb

halal

1. (Western) to turn the head

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَلَال (ḥalāl).

Adjective

halal (neuter halal, plural and definite singular attributive halal)

1. (chiefly predicative, Islam) halal (allowed, especially with regard to food)

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَلَال (ḥalāl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦaːˈlɑl/

• Audio:

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Adjective

halal (not comparable)

1. (Islam) allowed, in keeping with Islamic principles

Usage notes

• halal is normally not inflected, instead it is often used as an attributive first element in compounds or simply left uninflected when used as an attributive adjective.

Inflection

Declension of halal
uninflected	halal
inflected	-
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		halal
indefinite	m./f. sing.	-
	n. sing.	halal
	plural	-
definite		-
partitive		halals

Antonyms

• haram

Adverb

halal

1. (Islam) done in keeping with Islamic principles

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Portuguese

Adjective

halal (invariable)

1. (of food) halal (fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs)

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Spanish

Adjective

1. halal