حواری
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic حَوَارِيّ (ḥawāriyy).
Noun
حواری • (havari)
- (religion) disciple, apostle
Descendants
- Turkish: havari
Further reading
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “havari”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حَوَارِيّ (ḥawāriyy), from Ge'ez ሐዋርያ (ḥäwarəya, “traveller; messenger, envoy; apostle”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ha.waː.ˈɾiː/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [hä.wɑː.ɾíː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [hæ.vɒː.ɹíː]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [hä.vɔ.ɾí]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | hawārī |
| Dari reading? | hawārī |
| Iranian reading? | havâri |
| Tajik reading? | havori |
Noun
حواری • (havâri) (plural حواریون (havâriyun))
- (Christianity, Islam) apostle (of Jesus)
Descendants
- → Urdu: حَوَاری (havārī)
Further reading
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “حواری”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian حواری (havārī), itself from Arabic حَوَارِيّ (ḥawāriyy), from Ge'ez ሐዋርያ (ḥäwarəya, “traveller; messenger, envoy; apostle”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɦə.ʋɑː.ɾiː/
- Rhymes: -iː
- Hyphenation: حَ‧وا‧ری
Noun
حَوَاری • (havārī) m (Hindi spelling हवारी)
- (Islam) an apostle; disciple of Jesus
- (by extension):
- disciple (of a teacher or sage etc.)
- Synonym: شاگِرْد (śāgird)
- (dated) a washerman; fuller
- (rare) one who has white skin
- a faithful / loyal person[1]
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | حَوَاری (havārī) | حَوَاری (havārī) |
| oblique | حَوَاری (havārī) | حَوَارِیوں (havāriyõ) |
| vocative | حَوَاری (havārī) | حَوَارِیو (havāriyo) |
Further reading
- ^ جامع اللغات – Jāmiʻu l-luġāt
- “حواری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “حواری”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “حواری”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “حواري”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 482
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “حواري”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 587
- John Shakespear (1834) “حواری”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC