Hawa (given name)

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| gender = Arabic: Female
Atayal: Male

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| origin = Arabic: From the Arabic word for Eve

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Hawa is a feminine given name. In Atayal, Hawa is a male given name.

Hawa is the traditional Arabic, classical Hebrew and Swahili name for the Biblical and Qur'anic figure Eve.Oliver Leaman, The Qur'an: an encyclopedia, (Routledge: 2008), p.11 In Modern Hebrew the more common version is Chava.

Notable people

Fictional characters

  • Hawa (哈瓦), an Atayalic character in the Taiwanese television film {{ill|Batu The Iron Fist|tay|Batu (teribi)}} (鐵拳巴圖).

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