حاذق ḥāẕiḳ A (from حذق Was acute, pricked, stimulated) adj. Ingenious, skilful, penetrating, intelligent, excelling, adept.

حواصل ḥawāṣil A (from حصل) s. m. 1. plur. of حوصله q. v. 2. An animal of whose skin they make garments. 3. A pelican.

حکما ḥukamā A s. plur. (of حکيم) Philosophers, sages, physicians.

حسن ḥasan A (from حسن ḥusn) 1. adj. Good, beautiful. 2. A proper name, a son of علي aﻌlī.

حالي ḥāl-ī A adj. 1. Modern, new. 2. adv. Present, now, soon. 3. Current (coin).

حله ḥulla A s. m. A robe, a garment.

حجاز ḥijāz A (from حجز To restrain, to intervene, to separate) s. m. 1. Mecca and the adjacent country, Arabia Petræa. (Arabia is by some divided into two parts only; viz. Yaman and Ḥijāz: others make of it five divisions; namely, Yaman, Tihāma, Najd, Aﻌrūẓ and Ḥijāz. Ḥijāz is the chain of mountains extending from Yaman to Syria; and has this name from intervening between Najd and Tihāma). 2. Name of one of the three principal Persian modes of musick (the other two being اسفـﮩ‍ان isfahān and عراق iﻌrāḳ).

حساس ḥassās A adj. (superl. from حسّ) 1. Possessed of the five senses. 2. (used substan- tively) m. An animal.

حديقه ḥadīḳa A s. m. A garden.

حوصله ḥauṣila A (proper. ḥauṣala, from حصل) s. m. 1. The stomach, maw, crop, craw. 2. (met.) Capacity, ambition, spirit, desire, resolu- tion. حوصله داري ḥauṣila-dār-ī, s. f. Capacity. حوصله مند ḥauṣila-mand, adj. Ambitious, as- piring.