hawalah

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Arabic حَوَالَة (ḥawāla, transfer, trust).

Noun

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hawalah

  1. (Islamic finance) hawala, a long-established informal system of money transfer from India and the Middle East, still in use by migrant workers.