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hawalla

hawalla 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.

Forms of hawalla

pluralhawallas

Questions about hawalla

What is hawalla the alternative form of?
Hawalla is the alternative form of hawala.

Words near hawalla in the dictionary

  1. hawaladar
  2. hawaladars
  3. hawalas
  4. hawaldar
  5. hawaldars
  6. hawalla
  7. hawalladar
  8. hawalladars
  9. hawallas
  10. Hawara
  11. Hawarden

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hawalla (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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