حلقہ

Borrowed from Classical Persian حَلْقَه (halqa), from Arabic حَلْقَة (ḥalqa).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦəl.qɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: حَل‧قَہ
• Homophone: ہَلْکا (halkā) (kaaf-qaaf merger)

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

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• “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