هوا

From Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ, “air”).

هوا • (hawa) m

1. air

From Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ).

• IPA^(key): /ha.wa/
• Homophone: هوى (hawa, “desire, passion”)

هوا • (hawa) m (plural أَهْوِيَة (ʔahwiya))

1. air
2. weather

   Synonym: جَوّ (jawwa)

3. wind, breeze

   Synonym: رياح (riyāḥ)

هَوا (havâ) (definite accusative هَوانؽ, plural هَوالار)

1. Arabic spelling of havâ (“air, weather”)

From Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ, “air”).

• IPA^(key): /ha.wa/, /hwaː/

• Audio:

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هوا • (hawa, hwā) m

1. air

• → Ladino: ĥua (Haketia)

Borrowed from Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ, “air”).

هوا • (hava)

1. air, the substance constituting Earth's atmosphere

   Synonym: باد (bâd)

2. (chemistry) gas, matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma
3. weather, the climate or atmospheric condition of a locality
4. zephyr, breeze, a light, gentle wind

   Synonym: صبا (saba)

5. (music) aria, a musical piece written typically for a solo voice

• Turkish: hava
• → Albanian: hava
• → Greek: χαβάς (chavás)
• → Laz: ხავა (xava)
• → Macedonian: ава (ava)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ха̀ва

  Latin script: hàva

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “hava”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1901
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “هوا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 497b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “هوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1329
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Aër”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 35
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “هوا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5508
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “hava”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “هوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2172

From Arabic هَوًى (hawan, “desire, love, passion”).

هوا • (heva) (plural اهوا)

1. liking, the slightest degree of the passion of love
2. (in the plural) any vain bias, whim, fancy, caprice

• Turkish: heva

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “heva”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1939
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “هوا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 497b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “هوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1330
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “heva”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “هوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[8], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2172

Borrowed from Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ, “air”).

• Audio (Iran):

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• Homophone: هویٰ

هوا • (hawā / havâ) (Tajik spelling ҳаво)

1. air
2. wind
3. weather
4. desire, love, passion
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3451:

     هین مکش بهر هوا آن بار علم
     تا ببینی در درون انبار علم

     hīn makaš bahr-i hawā ān bār-i ilm
     tā bibīnī dar darūn anbār-i ilm

     Beware! Do not carry that burden of knowledge for the sake of selfish desire,
     so that you may behold the barn of knowledge within (you)

• → Bengali: হাওয়া (haōẇa)
• → Bhojpuri: हवा (havā)
• → Georgian: ჰავა (hava)
  • → Bats: ჰავ (hav)
• → Gujarati: હવા (havā)
• Hindustani:

  Hindi: हवा (havā)

  Urdu: ہَوا (havā)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਹਵਾ (havā)

  Shahmukhi script: هَوا

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “هوا”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “هوا”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1516
• Bausani, Alessandro (1969), “Note sui prestiti arabi nella più antica poesia neopersiana”, in Studia Classica et Orientalia Antonino Pagliaro Oblata. I (in Italian), Rome: Istituto di Glottologia dell’Università, page 178 of 173–188

Borrowed from Classical Persian هَوَا (hawā), from Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ).

هوا • (havā) f (Devanagari हवा)

1. air
2. wind

• آب و هوا (âb-o havâ)

• Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988), “هَوا”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ, page 2049
• Sindhi Language Authority (2025), “هوا”, in Online Sindhi Dictionaries‎^[9]

From Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ).

• IPA^(key): /ha.wa/, [ˈha.wa]

• Audio (al-Lidd):

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هوا • (hawa) m

1. air

   Synonym: جوّ (jaww)

2. wind, breeze

   Synonym: (formal) ريح (rīḥ)