هواء

From the root ه و ي‎ (h-w-y), meaning a hole or hollow, a depression or declivity, a valley or chasm, hence the empty space or air that fills them.

• IPA^(key): /ha.waːʔ/

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هَوَاء • (hawāʔ) m (plural أَهْوِيَة‎ (ʔahwiya))

1. (uncountable) air
2. (uncountable) atmosphere
3. synonym of جَوّ‎ (jaww, “the apparently open space above the ground”)
4. empty space, vacancy, void

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• هَوَائِيّ‎ (hawāʔiyy)

• Egyptian Arabic: هوا‎ (hawa)
• Gulf Arabic: هوا‎ (hawa)
• Moroccan Arabic: هوا‎ (hwa)
• → Afar: hawá (“climate”)
• → Amharic: ህዋ (həwa)
• → Azerbaijani: hava
• → Armenian: հավա (hava)
• → Bashkir: һауа (hawa)
• → Bhojpuri: हवा (havā)
• → Bengali: হাওয়া (haōẇa)
• → Georgian: ჰავა (hava)
• → Ge'ez: ህዋ (həwa), ሕዋ (ḥəwa)
• → Gujarati: હવા (havā)
• → Harari: ሐዋእ (ḥäwaʾ)
• → Hindi: हवा (havā)
• → Indonesian: hawa
• → Javanese: hawa
• → Judeo-Tat: hovo / гьово / האָבאָ‎ (hovo)
• → Karaim: хъава (xava)
• → Kazakh: ауа (aua)
• → Khalaj: havâ
• Kurdish:
  • → Northern Kurdish: hewa
  • → Central Kurdish: ھەوا‎ (hewa)
  • → Southern Kurdish: ھەوا‎ (hewa)
  • → Laki: ھەوا‎ (hewa)
• → Kyrgyz: аба (aba)
• → Lishana Deni: הוא‎ (hawa)
• → Malay: hawa
• → Marathi: हवा (havā)
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• → Pashto: هوا‎
• → Persian: هوا‎ (havâ)
  • → Bengali: হাওয়া (haōẇa)
  • → Georgian: ჰავა (hava)
    • → Bats: ჰავ (hav)
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਹਵਾ (havā)

    Shahmukhi script: هوا‎ (havā)

• → Punjabi: ਹਵਾ (havā)
• → Sindhi: هوا‎ (havâ)
• → Somali: hawo
• → Sundanese: hawa
• → Swahili: hewa
• → Tajik: ҳаво (havo)
• → Tigrinya: ህዋህው (həwahəw)
• → Urdu: ہوا‎ (havā)
• → Uyghur: ھاۋا‎ (hawa)
• → Uzbek: havo

هَوَاء • (hawāʔ)

1. empty, void, vain
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 14:43:

     ‏وَأَفْئِدَتُهُمْ هَوَاءٌ‎

     waʔafʔidatuhum hawāʔun

     Their hearts are vain.

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هَوَّاء • (hawwāʔ) m (plural هَوَّاؤُونَ‎ (hawwāʔūna), feminine هَوَّاءَة‎ (hawwāʔa)) (rare)

1. enthusiast

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هِوَاء • (hiwāʔ) m

1. verbal noun of هَاوَى‎ (hāwā, “to show love towards”)

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