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Halal

[huh-lahl] Origin

ha·lal

[huh-lahl]
adjective
1.
(of an animal or its meat) slaughtered or prepared in the manner prescribed by Islamic law.
2.
of or pertaining to halal meat: a halal butcher.
noun
3.
a halal animal or halal meat.

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Halal is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1850–55; < Arabic halāl lawful
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halal or hallal (hɑːˈlɑːl)
 
n
1.  meat from animals that have been killed according to Muslim law
 
adj
2.  of or relating to such meat: a halal butcher
 
vb , -als, -alling, -alled
3.  to kill (animals) in this way
 
[from Arabic: lawful]
 
hallal or hallal
 
n
 
adj
 
vb
 
[from Arabic: lawful]

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halal
1855, from Arabic, lit. "lawful." Halal food has been prepared in a manner prescribed by Islamic law.
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