حواری

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See also: جواری and خواری

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَوَارِيّ (ḥawāriyy), from Ge'ez ሐዋርያ (ḥäwarəya, “traveller; messenger, envoy; apostle”).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? hawārī
Dari reading? hawārī
Iranian reading? havâri
Tajik reading? havorī

Noun

حواری • (havâri) (plural حواریون (havâriyun))

  1. (Christianity, Islam) apostle (of Jesus)

Descendants

  • → Urdu: حَوَاری (havārī)

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)

  1. (Islam) an apostle; disciple of Jesus
  2. (by extension):
    1. a companion of any other Prophet
    2. certain Prophets of God
    3. an epithet for Zubayr
  3. disciple (of a teacher or sage etc.)
    Synonym: شاگِرْد (śāgird)
  4. (dated) a washerman; fuller
  5. (rare) one who has white skin
  6. a faithful / loyal person

Declension

Declension of حواری
singular plural
direct حواری (havārī) حواری (havārī)
oblique حواری (havārī) حواریوں (havāriyō̃)
vocative حواری (havārī) حواریو (havāriyō)

Further reading

  1. ^ 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.
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Platts, John Thompson (1884) “حواري”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC

  • 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
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