Ḥawwāʾ
حواء
Say it haw-WAA
The wife of Ādam
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ḥ-w-y
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Hawa, Hawwa, Havva, Hauwa
Meaning & source
The name of the wife of Ādam. In the same root ḥuwwah is a dark, reddish-black colour, as of the lips.
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وحَوَّاءُ: زَوْجُ آدَمَ، عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلَامُ، والحَوَّاء: اسْمُ فَرَسِ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ شِهَابٍ.
Who carried this name
- Ḥawwāʾ bint Yazīd ibn al-Sakan Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11069 (vol. 8, p. 90)