حلقہ

See also: حلقه, حلقة, and خلقة

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حَلْقَه (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) constituency, electoral district

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

2. circle, ring, hoop
3. boundary

Declension

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

See also

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ح ل ق (0 c, 1 e)

Further reading

• “حلقہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “حلقہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “حلقہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “حلقه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “حلقه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• 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