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haluan

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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Compare halwan.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ha‧lu‧an

Noun

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haluan

  1. the snakehead murrel (Channa striata)

Finnish

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Verb

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haluan

  1. first-person singular present indicative of haluta
    Haluan syödä kebabinI want to eat a kebab.

Anagrams

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Indonesian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Malay haluan, from Proto-Malayic *hAluan, *hulu (head) +‎ *-an with the vowel adjacent to /h/ in the penultimate syllable regularly neutralized to /a/.

Noun

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haluan (plural haluan-haluan)

  1. (nautical) bow (front of a boat or ship)
  2. (aviation) course (the intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc)
    Synonym: arah
  3. direction
    Synonym: arah
  4. purpose
    Synonym: tujuan
  5. guideline
    Synonym: pedoman

Derived terms

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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Simalungun Batak [Term?].

Noun

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haluan (plural haluan-haluan)

  1. A diacritical mark in the form of a small circle following Batak script characters that functions to form the letter 'i'

Further reading

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