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حلوہ

Borrowed from Classical Persian حَلْوَا (halwā), from Arabic حَلْوَى (ḥalwā). This spelling reflects a hypercorrection against the neutralisation of vowel-length contrasts in word-final position in Hindustani.

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c. 750 CEArabic

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