حلیہ

Urdu

FWOTD – 10 January 2024

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حلیه (hiliya), itself from Arabic حِلِيَة (ḥiliya).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦʊ.lɪ.jɑ(ː)/
  • (dated) IPA^(key): /ɦɪ.lɪ.jɑ(ː)/
• (common) IPA^(key): /ɦu.lɪ.jɑ(ː)/

Noun

حُلِیَہ • (huliya) m (Hindi spelling हुलिया)

1. demeanour or more strictly - the countenance, face

   Synonyms: شَکَل (śakal), (loosely) چِہْرَہ (cihra)

   اَپْنا حُلِیَہ دیکھو!

   apnā huliya dekho!

   Look at you!

   (literally, “Look at your huliya (countenance/self/yourself)!”)

2. (by extension) the description of a person (ie. to identify or recognise a person)
3. (rare or obsolete) jewellery, ornament, decoration (particularly of gold, silver, jewels etc.)

Declension

Declension of حلیہ
	singular	plural
direct	حُلِیہ (huliyah)	حُلِیے (huliye)
oblique	حُلِیے (huliye)	حُلِیوں (huliyõ)
vocative	حُلِیے (huliye)	حُلِیو (huliyo)

Further reading

• “حلیہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “huliya”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “حليه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “حليه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 586