هواء

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ه و ي (h-w-y), meaning a hole or hollow, a depression or declivity, a valley or chasm, hence the empty space or air that fills them.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ha.waːʔ/
  • (file)

Noun

هَوَاء (hawāʔ) m (plural أَهْوِيَة (ʔahwiya))

  1. (uncountable) air
  2. (uncountable) atmosphere
  3. synonym of جَوّ (jaww, the apparently open space above the ground)
  4. empty space, vacancy, void

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Egyptian Arabic: هوا (hawa)
  • Gulf Arabic: هوا (hawa)
  • Moroccan Arabic: هوا (hwa)
  • Afar: hawá (climate)
  • Amharic: ህዋ (həwa)
  • Azerbaijani: hava
  • Armenian: հավա (hava)
  • Bashkir: һауа (hawa)
  • Bhojpuri: हवा (havā)
  • Bengali: হাওয়া (haōẇa)
  • Georgian: ჰავა (hava)
  • Ge'ez: ህዋ (həwa), ሕዋ (ḥəwa)
  • Gujarati: હવા (havā)
  • Harari: ሐዋእ (ḥäwaʾ)
  • Hindi: हवा (havā)
  • Indonesian: hawa
  • Javanese: hawa
  • Judeo-Tat: hovo / гьово / האָבאָ (hovo)
  • Kazakh: ауа (aua)
  • Kurdish:
  • Kyrgyz: аба (aba)
  • Malay: hawa
  • Marathi: हवा (havā)
  • Ottoman Turkish: هواء (hava), هوا (hava)
    • Turkish: hava
    • Greek: χαβάς (chavás)
    • Laz: ხავა (xava)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ха̀ва
      Latin script: hàva
  • Pashto: هوا
  • Persian: هوا (havâ)
  • Punjabi: ਹਵਾ (havā)
  • Sindhi: هوا (havâ)
  • Somali: hawo
  • Sundanese: hawa
  • Swahili: hewa
  • Tajik: ҳаво (havo)
  • Tigrinya: ህዋህው (həwahəw)
  • Urdu: ہوا (havā)
  • Uyghur: ھاۋا (hawa)
  • Uzbek: havo

Adjective

هَوَاء (hawāʔ)

  1. empty, void, vain
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 14:43:
      وَأَفْئِدَتُهُمْ هَوَاءٌ
      waʔafʔidatuhum hawāʔun
      Their hearts are vain.

Declension

Noun

هَوَّاء (hawwāʔ) m (plural هَوَّاؤُونَ (hawwāʔūna), feminine هَوَّاءَة (hawwāʔa)) (rare)

  1. enthusiast

Declension

Noun

هِوَاء (hiwāʔ) m

  1. verbal noun of هَاوَى (hāwā, to show love towards)

Declension

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