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havala

havala is the alternative form of hawala.

Meaning of hawala

Noun

hawala (countable and uncountable, plural hawalas)

  1. (Islamic finance) A long-established informal system of money transfer from South Asia and the Middle East, still in use by migrant workers.

Questions about havala

What is havala the alternative form of?
Havala is the alternative form of hawala.

Words near havala in the dictionary

  1. HAVA
  2. havable
  3. havage
  4. havages
  5. Havaiki
  6. havala
  7. havaldar
  8. havaldars
  9. havaleh
  10. Havamal
  11. havan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: havala (page history and authors); hawala (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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