نمک حلال

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نَمَک حَلَال (namak halāl).

Pronunciation

Adjective

نَمَک حَلال • (namak halāl) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling नमक हलाल) (figurative)

  1. loyal, faithful
    Antonym: نَمَک حَرام (namak harām)

Derived terms

  • نَمَک حَلالی (namak halālī, “loyalty”)

Further reading

  • Fallon, S. W. (1879), “نمک+حلال”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1171
  • Platts, John T. (1884), “نمک حلال”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 916
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “نمک+حلال”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 650
  • “نمک+حلال”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
  • John Shakespear (1834), “نمک+حلال”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1794
  • “نمک+حلال”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
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