halal

From Arabic حَلَال‎ (ḥalāl).

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• Rhymes: -ɑːl

halal (not comparable)

1. (Islam) Permissible, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.
   • 2014, Professor Nilüfer Göle, Islam and Public Controversy in Europe →ISBN, page 176:

     […] broadening the demand for halal across all product categories, not just in their consumption of meat products […]

2. (of food) Fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs.

• nonharam

• haram

halal (third-person singular simple present halals, present participle halaling or halalling, simple past and past participle halaled or halalled)

1. (transitive) To make halal.

• kosher

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• (Western) IPA^(key): /ˈhalal/

halal

1. (Western) to turn the head

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Borrowed from Arabic حَلَال‎ (ḥalāl).

halal (neuter halal, plural and definite singular attributive halal)

1. (chiefly predicative, Islam) halal (allowed, especially with regard to food)

Borrowed from Arabic حَلَال‎ (ḥalāl).

• IPA^(key): /ɦaːˈlɑl/

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halal (not comparable)

1. (Islam) allowed, in keeping with Islamic principles

• halal is normally not inflected, instead it is often used as an attributive first element in compounds or simply left uninflected when used as an attributive adjective.

• haram

halal

1. (Islam) done in keeping with Islamic principles

halal (plural halal, comparable)

1. (of food) halal (fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs)

halal (invariable)

1. halal