هوا

See also: ہوا

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ, “air”).

Noun

هوا • (hawa) m

1. air

Hijazi Arabic

Root
ه و ي
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha.wa/
• Homophone: هوى (hawa, “desire, passion”)

Noun

هوا • (hawa) m (plural أَهْوِيَة (ʔahwiya))

1. air
2. weather

   Synonym: جَوّ (jawwa)

3. wind, breeze

   Synonym: رياح (riyāḥ)

Khalaj

Noun

هَوا (havâ) (definite accusative هَوانؽ, plural هَوالار)

1. Arabic spelling of havâ (“air, weather”)

Declension

Declension of هوا

	singular	plural
nominative	هوا	هوالار
genitive	هواݧ	هوالارؽݧ
dative	هواقا	هوالارقا
definite accusative	هواݧ	هوالارؽ
locative	هواچا	هوالارچا
ablative	هوادا	هوالاردا
instrumental	هوالا	هوالارلا
equative	هواوارا	هوالاروارا

Moroccan Arabic

Root
ه و ي
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ, “air”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha.wa/, /hwaː/

• Audio:

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Noun

هوا • (hawa, hwā) m

1. air

Descendants

• → Ladino: ĥua (Haketia)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ, “air”).

Noun

هوا • (hava)

1. air, the substance constituting Earth's atmosphere

   Synonym: باد (bâd)

2. (chemistry) gas, matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma
3. weather, the climate or atmospheric condition of a locality
4. breeze, a light, gentle wind
5. (music) aria, a musical piece written typically for a solo voice

Derived terms

• آچق هوا (açık hava, “fair weather”)
• هوا ترازوسی (hava terazisi, “barometer”)
• هوا فشكی (hava fişeği, “sky rocket”)
• هوالاتمق (havalatmak, “to make or let take air”)
• هوالانمق (havalanmak, “to take air”)

Descendants

• Turkish: hava
• → Albanian: hava
• → Greek: χαβάς (chavás)
• → Laz: ხავა (xava)
• → Macedonian: ава (ava)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ха̀ва

  Latin script: hàva

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hava”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1901
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “هوا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 497b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “هوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1329
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Aër”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 35
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “هوا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5508
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hava”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2172

Etymology 2

From Arabic هَوًى (hawan, “desire, love, passion”).

Noun

هوا • (heva) (plural اهوا)

1. liking, the slightest degree of the passion of love
2. (in the plural) any vain bias, whim, fancy, caprice

Derived terms

• هواجی (hevaci, “one who manifests a liking”)
• هوازده (hevazede, “struck with love”)

Descendants

• Turkish: heva

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “heva”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1939
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “هوا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 497b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “هوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1330
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “heva”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[8], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2172

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ, “air”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ha.wɑː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.wɑː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.wɑː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.wɑː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.wɔː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hæ.vɒː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.vɔ]

Readings
Classical reading?	hawā
Dari reading?	hawā
Iranian reading?	havâ
Tajik reading?	havo

• Audio (Iran):

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• Homophone: هویٰ

Noun

Dari	هوا
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҳаво

هَوا • (havâ)

1. air
2. wind
3. weather
4. desire, love, passion
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3451:

     هین مکش بهر هوا آن بار علم
     تا ببینی در درون انبار علم

     hīn makaš bahr-i hawā ān bār-i ilm
     tā bibīnī dar darūn anbār-i ilm

     Beware! Do not carry that burden of knowledge for the sake of selfish desire,
     so that you may behold the barn of knowledge within (you)

Derived terms

• آب و هوا (âb o havâ)
• هواپیما (havâpeymâ, “airplane”)

Descendants

• → Bengali: হাওয়া (haōẇa)
• → Georgian: ჰავა (hava)
  • → Bats: ჰავ (hav)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਹਵਾ (havā)

  Shahmukhi script: هوا (havā)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “هوا”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “هوا”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1516
• Bausani, Alessandro (1969) “Note sui prestiti arabi nella più antica poesia neopersiana”, in Studia Classica et Orientalia Antonino Pagliaro Oblata. I (in Italian), Rome: Istituto di Glottologia dell’Università, page 178 of 173–188

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian هوا (hawā), from Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ, “air”). Compare Urdu ہوا (hawā).

Noun

هوا • (havā) m (Devanagari हवा)

1. air
2. wind

Related terms

• آب و هوا (âb-o havâ)

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ه و ي
2 terms

Etymology

From Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha.wa/, [ˈha.wa]

• Audio (al-Lidd):

  (file)

Noun

هوا • (hawa) m

1. air

   Synonym: جوّ (jaww)

2. wind, breeze

   Synonym: (formal) ريح (rīḥ)