हालत

Hindi

FWOTD – 5 May 2017

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حالت (hālat), from Arabic حَالَة (ḥāla).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɦɑː.lət̪/, [ɦäː.lɐt̪]

Noun

हालत • (hālat) f (Urdu spelling حالت)

1. state, condition

   हमारा घर बुरी हालत में है, हमको साफ़ करना होगा।

   hamārā ghar burī hālat mẽ hai, hamko sāf karnā hogā.

   Our house is in a bad state, we will need to clean it up.

   Synonyms: अवस्था (avasthā), दशा (daśā)

   • Rammanohar Lohiya (2008) Lohiya Ke Vichar, Rajkamal Prakashan Pvt Ltd, →ISBN

     […] इसलिये यह कहना कि आमतौर पर ब्राह्मणों की हालत गिरती जा रहीं है […]

     […] isliye yah kahnā ki āmtaur par brāhmaṇõ kī hālat girtī jā rahī̃ hai […]

     […] for this reason to say the condition of Brahmans is generally worsening is […]

Declension

Declension of हालत (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	हालत hālat	हालतें, हालात hālatẽ, hālāt
oblique	हालत hālat	हालतों, हालात hālatõ, hālāt
vocative	हालत hālat	हालतो, हालात hālato, hālāt

Related terms

• हाल (hāl)

References

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