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hawara

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English

Syllables
hawara
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A village in Egypt, and an Ancient Egyptian site near it, south of Crocodilopolis / Arsinoe, with a pyramid and a necropolis in which the Fayum mummy portraits were found.

noun

A member of an Amazigh tribe that settled in Egypt and was known for breeding horses and serving as cavalry.

Etymology

From Arabic هَوَارَة (hawāra) which in turn is from Demotic Egyptian ḥw.t-wr.t (“the great mansion”), from Egyptian ḥwt (“enclosure, mansion”) + wrt (“large, great”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: هَوَارَة, ḥw.t-wr.t, ḥwt

Inflected Forms

Hawaras (plural) Hawwarah (alternative)

Questions

What does hawara mean?
A village in Egypt, and an Ancient Egyptian site near it, south of Crocodilopolis / Arsinoe, with a pyramid and a necropolis in which the Fayum mummy portraits were found.
Where does hawara come from?
It is traced to Arabic.

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