هانکنا hānknā S̱. (from हंकार) v. a. 1. To drive. 2. To bawl to.

هلگي halgī H adv. Gently, softly. H.S̱. هلمل جانا hil-mil jānā, v. n. 1. To be mixed. 2. To be intimate. 3. To be jumbled together.

هلا hallā S̱. s. (dakh.) Name of an astringent nut, yellow or chebulic myrobalan: see s̱. هرا harrā.

هچکچانا hichkichānā H v. n. To doubt, to he- sitate, to be in suspense, to falter.

هدل hudal H s. m. (dakh.) Quagmire: see دلدل daldal.

همت himmat A (from همّ Heb. and Chald. ) s. f. Spirit, mind, inclination, resolution, brave- ry, liberality, courage, magnanimity, purpose, design.

هينا hīnā S̱. (हीन) adj. Deficient, little, aba- ted, left, quitted, void of.

هلالي hilāl-ī A s. f. 1. A kind of arrow. 2. A segment of a circle. adj. Relating to the new moon. n. prop. Name of a poet.

هڐ haḍ हड्ड S̱. s. m. (dakh.) Bone. هڐ پهوٿنا haḍ phūṭnā (met. for ترقي پانا) To improve, to advance (?).

ه hā called هاي هوز hā-i-hawwaz and هاي مدوره hā-i-mudawwara, the twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic and thirty-first of the Persian alphabet, corresponds to ह in Sanskrit. It is one of the guttural letters, having the sound of the English h. When it occurs at the end of a word, it is either perceptible, which is called هاي ظاهريا جلي يا ملفوظي (hā-i-z̤āhir or -jalī, or -malfūz̤ī), as in بادشاه bādshāh, A king; or imperceptible مختفي يا مکتوبي (-muḵẖtafī or -maktūbī), as in بہانه bahāna, A pretence, به ba, With, &c. where it merely conveys the sound of fatʼḥa. In the formation of the plural with ها the هاي جلي of the singular is preserved;