hâli

Hâli is a transliteration that appears in discussions about several related terms across Persian, Turkish, and Arabic. In each language, the core sense is related to state or condition, but the exact meaning and usage vary with context.

In Persian, the word حال (hāl) means state, condition, or situation. It is used for both emotional or physical states and for situations or affairs. The term commonly occurs in phrases such as حالِ حاضر (the present state) and in sentences describing someone’s situation, for example “حال من خوب است” (my state is good). The transliterated form hâli may appear in academic or bilingual texts to indicate the same root or to show the ezafe construction in transliteration.

In Turkish, hâl (modern spelling hal) also denotes state or condition and is inherited from Persian. The standard Turkish spelling today is hal. A related Turkish word, halı, means carpet and is not etymologically linked to the sense of state. The circumflex in older or transliterated Turkish spellings signals vowel length, and hâl appears in contexts such as bu hâlde, meaning “in this state.”

In Arabic, حال (ḥāl) carries the core meaning of state or condition and is common in grammatical discussions to describe the state of a noun in a sentence. The adjective حالِيّ (ḥālī) can mean “current” or “present” in various phrases.

Because hâli is a transliteration rather than a single standardized word, its precise meaning depends on language, orthography, and context. In multilingual or scholarly texts, it is typically clarified by surrounding words or by presenting the term in the original script.