Hawa (given name) explained

Hawa
Gender:	Arabic: Female Atayal: Male
Origin:	Arabic: From the Arabic word for Eve
Variant:	Hawo

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.^[1] 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 (鐵拳巴圖).

See also

• Eve (name)

Notes and References

1. Oliver Leaman, The Qur'an: an encyclopedia, (Routledge: 2008), p.11