हवालात

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Hindi[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic حَوَالَات (ḥawālāt), plural of حَوَالَة (ḥawāla) (whence हवाला (havālā)).

Pronunciation[edit]

(Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɦə.ʋɑː.lɑːt̪/, [ɦɐ.ʋäː.läːt̪]
Rhymes: -ɑːt̪

Noun[edit]

हवालात • (havālāt) f (Urdu spelling حوالات)

police custody, incarceration
Synonyms: हिरासत (hirāsat), क़ैद (qaid)

अपराधी को हवालत में रखा गया।
aprādhī ko havālat mẽ rakhā gayā.
The criminal was taken into custody.

Declension[edit]

Declension of हवालात (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	हवालात havālāt	हवालातें havālātẽ
oblique	हवालात havālāt	हवालातों havālātõ
vocative	हवालात havālāt	हवालातो havālāto

References[edit]

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

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