halal

To make halal.

Adjective

  1. Allowable, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.
    • […] broadening the demand for halal across all product categories, not just in their consumption of meat products […] - 2014, Professor Nilüfer Göle, Islam and Public Controversy in Europe, →ISBN, page 176:

    Synonyms: nonharam qingzhen

    Antonyms: haram

    Hypernyms: acceptable abideable admissible allowable permissible sufferable supportable tolerable

    1. (specifically, of food) Fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs.

      Synonyms: nonharam qingzhen

      Antonyms: haram

      Hypernyms: acceptable abideable admissible allowable permissible sufferable supportable tolerable

  2. In accordance with standards or usual practice; allowable.
    • Is this kosher? I hear you ask. Is it halal? Can this really be viewed as strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the competition? - 2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 120:

    Synonyms: by the book proper rightful halal homodox kosher orthodox allowed conventional customary natural official routine traditional

Origin

Etymology tree Arabic حَلَال (ḥalāl)bor. English halal Borrowed from Arabic حَلَال (ḥalāl).

Derived

halal cart halalflation halalify halalisation halalization halalize halalness halal net halal snack pack nonhalal unhalal

Adverb

  1. In a halal manner; in accordance with Muslim religious customs.
    • Just like eating halal is not a choice for our Muslim brothers and sisters, for us, eating kosher is not voluntary; it’s who we are and as necessary as the oxygen we need for sustenance. - 2020 August 20, Eliezer Brand,...

Verb

  1. To make halal.
  2. to allow

Forms

halals halalling halalled

Related

kosher equivalent in Judaism jhatka equivalent in Sikhism