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xawala

xawala 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 xawala

What is xawala the alternative form of?
Xawala is the alternative form of hawala.

Words near xawala in the dictionary

  1. Xavierism
  2. Xavierite
  3. Xavierites
  4. Xavánte
  5. Xavántes
  6. xawala
  7. Xayar
  8. Xayavong
  9. Xayavongs
  10. Xazar
  11. Xazars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: xawala (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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