# حائل
## Arabic
### Etymology

Derived from the active participle of the verb حَالَ (ḥāla, “to change”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ħaː.ʔil/
* Rhymes: -il

### Adjective

حَائِل • (ḥāʔil) (masculine plural حِيَال (ḥiyāl) or حُول (ḥūl) or حُوَّل (ḥuwwal))
* altering, changing, being transmuted
* altered, changed, transmuted
* becoming black
* having become black

#### Declension
### Noun

حَائِل • (ḥāʔil) m (plural حِيَال (ḥiyāl) or حُول (ḥūl) or حُوَّل (ḥuwwal))
* anything shifting or moving in (مِن (min)) its place
* anything having shifted or moved in (مِن (min)) its place
* a female camel (or other animal) not conceiving or becoming pregnant during a set period of years
* a palm tree not bearing fruit
* a female baby camel at the time of birth

#### References

* Lane, Edward William (1863) “حائل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “حائل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

### Noun

حَائِل • (ḥāʔil) m (plural حَوَائِل (ḥawāʔil))
* partition, fence, barrier, obstacle, obstruction

#### Descendants

* → Persian: حَائِل, حایل (hâyel)
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: हाइल (hāil)
    Urdu: حائِل (hāil)
* → Ottoman Turkish: حائل
** Turkish: hail

#### References

* Lane, Edward William (1863) “حائل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “حائل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* حایل (hâyel)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَائِل (ḥāʔil).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [hɑː.ˈʔil], [ha.jil]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [hɑː.ʔɪ́l], [hä.jɪl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [hɑː.ʔɪ́l], [hä.jɪl]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔɑː.jɪ́l], [ʔä.jɪl]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔɔː.jíl̥], [ʔä.jil̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [hɒː.ʔél̥], [hejel̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [hɔ.ʔíl], [hä.jil]

### Adjective

حائل • (hâ'el)
* intervening; hindering; coming in between
    منطقه حائل ― mantaqe-ye hâ'el ― buffer zone

### Noun

حائل • (hâ'el) (plural حوائل (havâ'el))
* partition; obstacle; buffer
** c. 1260, Saʿdī, “Ghazal 348”, in دیوان سعدی [The Divān of Saʿdī]‎:پرده چه باشد میان عاشق و معشوق سد سکندر نه مانع است و نه حایلparda či bāšad miyān-i āšiq u ma'šūq sad-i sikandar na māni' ast u na hāyilBetween the lover and the beloved, what is a veil? [For them,] not even Alexander's Wall would be a hindrance or a buffer!(Classical Persian transliteration)

### Descendants

* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: हाइल (hāil)
    Urdu: حائِل (hāil)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حائل (hā'il), from Arabic حَائِل (ḥāʔil).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ɦɑː.ɪl/

### Adjective

حائِل • (hāil) (Hindi spelling हाइल)
* intervening, interposing, restraining, preventing
* hindering, standing in the way, disturbing

### Noun

حائِل • (hāil) m (Hindi spelling हाइल)
* obstacle, impediment

### References

* “حائل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “حائل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.