Ḥawrāʾ
حَوْرَاء
Say it haw-RAA
Of vivid white-and-black eyes
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ḥ-w-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Hawra, Hawraa, Haura
Meaning & source
With striking eyes: ḥawar is “for the white of the eye to be intensely white and its black deep black”.
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والحَوَرُ: أَن يَشْتَدَّ بياضُ الْعَيْنِ وسَوادُ سَوادِها وَتَسْتَدِيرَ حَدَقَتُهَا وَتَرِقَّ جُفُونُهَا ويبيضَّ مَا حَوَالَيْهَا
Who carried this name
We have not recorded an early bearer of this name. The word is classical Arabic.