هرچند har-chand P adv. Howmuchsoever, how- soever, although. هرچند که harchand-ki, Not- withstanding, although.

هتو hit-ū S̱. (from हित) s. m. f. A friend.

هت hit S̱. (हित r. धा Have, hold) s. m. Love, friendship, affection, benevolence.

هريل hariyal S̱. s. m. A green pigeon. (Columba hurriala: Buch.). See هاريل hāriyal.

هن hun H s. (dakh.) A coin, usually called pa- goda.

هرلا harlā S̱. s. (dakh.) Terminalia chebula: see s̱. هرا harrā.

هدياهٿ hadiyāhaṭ H (from هديانا) s. f. Scrupu- lousness, sheepishness, shiness.

هشکالنا hushkālnā H v. a. (dakh.) To halloo (set the dogs on), incite (Harris).

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;

هزليات hazliyāt A. s. plur. Jokes, jests, nonsen- sical talk, fiddle faddle.