English
Hawara
Hawara comes from Arabic هَوَارَة, and goes back to Demotic Egyptian ḥw.t-wr.t ‘the great mansion’.
- Demotic Egyptianmodernḥw.t-wr.t‘the great mansion’
- Arabicc. 500–presentهَوَارَةhawāra
- EnglishtodayHawara
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Demotic Egyptianmodernḥw.t-wr.t‘the great mansion’
- Arabicc. 500–presentهَوَارَةhawāra
- EnglishtodayHawara
A compound of ḥwt ‘enclosure, mansion’ + wrt ‘large, great’
Egyptian wr ‘great’
Egyptian wrt ‘large, great’
Every English word from Demotic Egyptian ḥw.t-wr.t
Today it means
name A village in Egypt, and an Ancient Egyptian site near it, south of Crocodilopolis / Arsinoe, with a pyramid and a necropolis in which the Fayum mummy portraits were found.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Demotic Egyptian ḥw.t-wr.t / Hawara