# هوا
## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ, “air”).

### Noun

هوا • (hawa) m
* air

## Hijazi Arabic

* Root
* ه و ي
* 1 term

### Etymology

From Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ).

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

هوا • (hawa) m (plural أَهْوِيَة (ʔahwiya))
* air
* weather
    Synonym: جَوّ (jawwa)
* wind, breeze
    Synonym: رياح (riyāḥ)

## Khalaj
### Noun

هَوا (havâ) (definite accusative هَوانؽ, plural هَوالار)
* Arabic spelling of havâ (“air, weather”)

#### Declension
## Moroccan Arabic

* Root
* ه و ي
* 1 term

### Etymology

From Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ, “air”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ha.wa/, /hwaː/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

هوا • (hawa, hwā) m
* air

#### Descendants

* → Ladino: ĥua (Haketia)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

هوا • (hava)
* air, the substance constituting Earth's atmosphere
    Synonym: باد (bâd)
* (chemistry) gas, matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma
* weather, the climate or atmospheric condition of a locality
* breeze, a light, gentle wind
* (music) aria, a musical piece written typically for a solo voice

##### Derived terms

* آچق هوا (açık hava, “fair weather”)
* هوا ترازوسی (hava terazisi, “barometer”)
* هوا فشكی (hava fişeği, “sky rocket”)
* هوالاتمق (havalatmak, “to make or let take air”)
* هوالانمق (havalanmak, “to take air”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: hava
* → Albanian: hava
* → Greek: χαβάς (chavás)
* → Laz: ხავა (xava)
* → Macedonian: ава (ava)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ха̀ва
    Latin script: hàva

#### Further reading

* 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, Vienna: F. Beck, page 497b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “هوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, 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, 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, Vienna, column 5508
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hava”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2172

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

هوا • (heva) (plural اهوا)
* liking, the slightest degree of the passion of love
* (in the plural) any vain bias, whim, fancy, caprice

##### Derived terms

* هواجی (hevaci, “one who manifests a liking”)
* هوازده (hevazede, “struck with love”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: heva

#### Further reading

* 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, Vienna: F. Beck, page 497b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “هوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1330
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “heva”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2172

## Persian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ha.wɑː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [hä.wɑː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [hä.wɑː]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔä.wɑː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔä.wɔː]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [hæ.vɒː]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [hä.vɔ]
* Audio (Iran):(file)
* Homophone: هویٰ

### Noun

| Dari | هوا |
| Iranian Persian | هوا |
| Tajik | ҳаво |
هَوا • (havâ)
* air
* wind
* weather
* 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 علمhīn makaš bahr-i hawā ān bār-i ilm tā bibīnī dar darūn anbār-i ilmBeware! Do not carry that burden of knowledge for the sake of selfish desire, so that you may behold the barn of knowledge within (you)

#### Derived terms

* آب و هوا (âb o havâ)
* هواپیما (havâpeymâ, “airplane”)

#### Descendants

* → Bengali: হাওয়া (haōẇa)
* → Georgian: ჰავა (hava)
** → Bats: ჰავ (hav)
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਹਵਾ (havā)
    Shahmukhi script: هوا (havā)

### Further reading

* 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

## Sindhi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian هوا (hawā), from Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ, “air”). Compare Urdu ہوا (hawā).

### Noun

هوا • (havā) m (Devanagari हवा)
* air
* wind

#### Related terms

* آب و هوا (âb-o havâ)

## South Levantine Arabic

* Root
* ه و ي
* 2 terms

### Etymology

From Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ha.wa/, [ˈha.wa]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Noun

هوا • (hawa) m
* air
    Synonym: جوّ (jaww)
* wind, breeze
    Synonym: (formal) ريح (rīḥ)