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hawalas

hawalas is the plural 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 hawalas

What is hawalas the plural of?
Hawalas is the plural of hawala.

Words near hawalas in the dictionary

  1. Hawaiʻian
  2. Hawaiʻians
  3. hawala
  4. hawaladar
  5. hawaladars
  6. hawalas
  7. hawaldar
  8. hawaldars
  9. hawalla
  10. hawalladar
  11. hawalladars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hawalas (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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