Hilal

Hilal (Arabic: هِلال‎, hilāl) is an Arabic word noun-name meaning "crescent moon", which is also used as a male given name, sometimes as a female given name.

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The crescent moon signifies in Arab culture as the "flow, gush, impulse of rain", the first rain, the hem or tip of the hand mill if it breaks, the snake, the dust and the beautiful young child.

It may refer to:

• Hilal (Arabic: هلال‎, hilāl), a crescent
  • the crescent Moon visible after a new Moon, determining the beginning of a month in the Islamic calendar
• Banu Hilal, a confederation of tribes of Arabia