هلال hilāl A (from هلّ Heb. and Aram. ) s. m. The new moon, the first and last two or three days of the moon. هلال دور hilāl-daur, A kind of bow.

هست hast S (हस्त) s. m. Name of the 13th mansion of the moon. (Corvus).

هنسي haṅsī S̱. or haṅse (हास्य) s. f. Sport, fun, mirth, laughter, laugh, ridicule.

هيلاج hailāj P s. m. 1. The time of labour or birth. 2. (In astrology) A mark by which the duration of life is foretold. (It is said to signify a wife, and to be derived from a Greek word of that meaning, perhaps a)/loxos). H. S̱. هيلا مارنا helā mārnā, v. a. To shove, to launch, to dash through water.

هگانا hagānā S̱. (causal of هگنا hagnā, q. v.) v. a. To cause to go to stool.

هنکاٿنا hankāṭnā S̱. v. a. (dakh.) To drive, drive away: see هانکنا hānknā.

هلدي haldī हरिद्रा S̱. s. f. Turmerick. (Cur- cuma longa). انبي هلدي ambī-haldī, s. (dakh.) Curcuma zedoaria or turmerick-coloured zedoa- ry. Qanoon-e-islam, glossary, p. lxiii.

هٿتال haṭ-tāl S̱. (from هاٿ A shop, and تالا A lock) s. f. Shutting up all the shops in a market (on account of oppression, &c.).

هوا hauwā H s. m. A bugbear, a hobgoblin.

هڙ haṛ H 1. (see s̱. هرا harrā) s. f. Name of a nut (myrobalan); an ornament resembling that fruit. 2. (Sans. हडि) s. m. Bilboes, the stocks. ¶ huṛ, adj. (dakh. i. q. نادان) Ignorant (?).