English Explanatory Dictionary

Hawara

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. 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
  1. A member of an Amazigh tribe that settled in Egypt and was known for breeding horses and serving as cavalry.

Word forms

Hawara Hawaras Hawwarah

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”).

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