حلقہ

See also: حلقه, حلقة, and خلقة

Urdu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦəl.qɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: حَل‧قَہ
• Homophone: ہَلْکا (halkā) (kaaf-qaaf merger)

Noun

حَلْقَہ • (halqa) m (Hindi spelling हल्क़ा)

1. (politics) electoral district, seat, constituency

   Synonyms: حَلْقَہ اِنْتِخاب (halqa intixāb), زون (zon), عِلاقَہ ('ilāqa), اَنْچَل (ancal)

2. circle
3. ring, hoop
4. boundary

Declension

Declension of حلقہ
	singular	plural
direct	حَلْقہ (halqah)	حَلْقے (halqe)
oblique	حَلْقے (halqe)	حَلْقوں (halqõ)
vocative	حَلْقے (halqe)	حَلْقو (halqo)

References

• Platts, John T. (1884) “حلقه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

2=حلقه Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.S. W. Fallon (1879) “حلقہ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.

• “حلقہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “حلقہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• “حلقہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• John Shakespear (1834) “حلقه”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC