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Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حَوَارِيّ (ḥawāriyy), from Ge'ez ሐዋርያ (ḥäwarəya, “traveller; messenger, envoy; apostle”).
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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hawārī
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| Dari reading?
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hawārī
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| Iranian reading?
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havâri
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| Tajik reading?
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havori
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Noun
حواری • (havâri) (plural حواریون (havâriyun))
- (Christianity, Islam) apostle (of Jesus)
Descendants
Further reading
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian حواری (havārī), itself from Arabic حَوَارِيّ (ḥawāriyy), from Ge'ez ሐዋርያ (ḥäwarəya, “traveller; messenger, envoy; apostle”).
Pronunciation
Noun
حَوَاری • (havārī) m (Hindi spelling हवारी)
- (Islam) an apostle; disciple of Jesus
- (by extension):
- a companion of any other Prophet
- certain Prophets of God
- an epithet for Zubayr
- 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
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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حَوَاری (havārī)
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حَوَاری (havārī)
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| oblique
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حَوَاری (havārī)
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حَوَارِیوں (havāriyõ)
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| vocative
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حَوَاری (havārī)
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حَوَارِیو (havāriyo)
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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 , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- 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