حَوَالَةٌ
Root: حول
Full Definition
2 The transfer of a claim, or of a debt, by shifting the responsibility from one person to another: the transfer of a debt by shifting the responsibility of him who transfers it to him to whom it is transferred: [a reference made by a debtor, of his creditor, to a debtor of the former, for the payment of what is owed by the former to the latter: an order for the payment of a debt, or of a sum of money, given by one person, upon another, to a third person: so in the present day:] a subst. from أَحَالِ عَلَيْهِ بِدَيْنِهِ, or from أَحَلْتُهُ بِدَيْنِهِ, or from أَحَالَ الغَرِيمَ. [See 4.]
3 A responsibility; accountableness.
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