Hawa (given name)
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| gender = Arabic: Female
Atayal: Male
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| origin = Arabic: From the Arabic word for Eve
| variant = Hawo
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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
- Hawa Abdi, Somali doctor and activist
- Hawa Abdi Samatar, former First Lady of Somalia
- Hawa Singh, Indian boxer
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).