حولا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَوْلَاء (ḥawlāʔ).

Adjective

حولا • (havla)

feminine singular of احول (ahval, “cross-eyed”)

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حولا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 813

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