# halang
## Cebuano
### Alternative forms

* hang

### Etymology

Compare Bikol Central harang.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ha‧lang
* (Standard Cebuano) IPA: /ˈhalaŋ/ [ˈha.l̪ɐŋ]

### Adjective

hálang (Badlit spelling ᜑᜎᜅ᜔)
* hot; pungent; spicy
* (slang) expensive
    Synonym: mahal

## Hiligaynon
### Etymology

Borrowed from Cebuano halang.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ha‧lang
* IPA: /ˈhalaŋ/ [ˈha.laŋ]

### Adjective

hálang
* spicy, pungent, biting (of taste)
    Synonym: kahang

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay halang, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qalaŋ (“obstruct, lie across or athwart”). Doublet of alang. Compare Tagalog harang.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhalaŋ]
* Hyphenation: ha‧lang

### Verb

halang
* to hinder, to impede.
    Synonyms: lintang, rintang

#### Affixed terms

* berhalangan
* halangan
* menghalang
* menghalang-halangi
* menghalangi
* penghalang
* terhalang
* terhalangi

#### Related terms

* alang
* palang

### Further reading

* “halang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Javanese
### Romanization

halang
* Romanization of ꦲꦭꦁ

## Malay
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qalaŋ (“obstruct, lie across or athwart”). Compare Tagalog harang.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /halaŋ/
* Rhymes: -alaŋ, -laŋ, -aŋ

### Verb

halang (Jawi spelling هالڠ)
* to hinder, to impede, to block.
    Dinding banjir tidak berjaya menghalang air yang semakin meningkat parasnya.The flood wall didn't succeed in blocking the rising water.

#### Derived terms

Regular affixed derivations:
* penghalangan [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
* penghalang [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
* halangan [resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (-an)
* menghalang [agent focus] (meN-)

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: halang

### Further reading

* “halang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Possibly from Malay halang, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qalaŋ (“obstruct, lie across or athwart”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog)
** IPA: /ˈhalaŋ/ [ˈhaː.lɐŋ] (“obstacle; clog; temporary screen; separating object; seine; substitute; substitution; spiciness”, noun)
*** Rhymes: -alaŋ
** IPA: /haˈlaŋ/ [hɐˈlaŋ] (“tranverse; savage”, adjective; “woven multicolor fabric”, noun)
*** Rhymes: -aŋ
* Syllabification: ha‧lang

### Noun

halang (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜎᜅ᜔)
* obstacle; barrier (object)
    Synonyms: hadlang, harang, balakid, sagabal, sagwil
* clog
    Synonym: bara
* temporary screen; temporary partition
    Synonym: tabing
* object placed to separate two things
    Synonym: pagitan
* encircling gill net or drag seine fishing gear
* (architecture) crosspiece
    Synonym: krusada
* (dialectal, Batangas) substitute; alternate
    Synonyms: kahalili, kapalit
* (dialectal, Batangas) substitution
    Synonyms: halili, paghalili
* (now dialectal, Quezon, Mindoro) spiciness
    Synonyms: anghang, hanghang

#### Derived terms

* halangan
* ihalang
* kahalang
* maghalang
* nakahalang
* pahalang

#### See also

* lambat

### Adjective

haláng (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜎᜅ᜔)
* passing; transverse; traverse; extending across
    Synonyms: pahalang, nakahalang
* merciless; savage; heartless

### Noun

haláng (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜎᜅ᜔) (art, obsolete)
* woven fabric of different colors

#### Derived terms

* halang ang bituka
* halang ang kaluluwa

### Further reading

* “halang”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
* “halang”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qalaŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

### Anagrams

* hangal