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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
halal is an adjective and noun meaning "proper or legitimate". It carries 3 recorded senses.
proper or legitimate
“the fund earns halal profits in full compliance with the Shari'a”
shariah
(Islam) meat from animals that have been slaughtered in the prescribed way according to the shariah
Islam
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for halal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.