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Where does “حال” come from?

حال (North Levantine Arabic) comes from Arabic حال, from Arabic و, from Persian یا, from Arabic يَا — {{m|en|O|id=vocative}}.

حال (North Levantine Arabic): condition; state; case; circumstance; -self;...

Definitions

  1. condition; state; case; circumstance; -self;...

Ancestry of “حال”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicحالto change, to be transformed; to shift, to turn,...
2Arabicوand, "comma", "semi-colon"; a divider of words or...
3PersianیاAPI •; or; either
4Arabicيَا{{m|en|O|id=vocative}}
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