هل

• IPA^(key): /hal/

هَلْ • (hal)

1. Interrogative particle that is added to the beginning of a declarative sentence to change it into a yes-or-no question.

   ‏هَلْ تَتَكَلَّمُ ٱلإِنْجْلِيزِيَّةَ؟‎‎

   hal tatakallamu l-ʾinglīziyyata?

   Do you speak English?

   ‏هَلْ فَتَحْتَ ٱلشُّبَّاكَ؟‎‎

   hal fataḥta š-šubbāka?

   Did you open the window?

   ‏هَلِ ٱلْوَلَدُ فِي ٱلْمَدْرَسَةِ؟‎‎

   hali l-waladu fī l-madrasati?

   Is the boy at school?

   ‏هَلْ أَنْتَ مِصْرِيٌّ؟‎‎

   hal ʾanta miṣriyyun?

   Are you Egyptian?

• أَ‎ (ʾa)

• هیل‎ (hil)

From earlier هیل‎ (hil), ultimately from Sanskrit एला (elā).

هل • (hel)

1. cardamom

• → Arabic: هَال‎ (hāl), هَيْل‎ pl (hayl)

  Hijazi Arabic: هيل‎ pl (hēl)

  • → Amharic: ሔል (ḥel)
  • → Middle Armenian: հալ (hal)
  • → Somali: heeyl
  • → Tigrinya: ሄል (hel)
• → Middle Armenian: հէլ (hēl), հիլ (hil)
  • → Armenian: հիլ (hil)
• → Azerbaijani: Һил (hil)
• → Bashkardi:

  Minābi: هیل‎ (hil), هل‎ (hel)

• → Georgian: ილი (ili)
• → Hebrew: הֵל‎ (hel)
• → Pashto: هیل‎ (hale)

• Hūšang Aʿlam (December 15, 1990), "Cardamom", Encyclopædia Iranica

From Middle Persian ʾwl (ul, “up(wards)”).

هل • (hol)

1. push, shove

• هل دادن‎ (hol dâdan)

هل • (hel-)

1. present stem of هلیدن‎
2. present stem of هشتن‎