حواری

See also: جواری and خواری

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic حَوَارِيّ (ḥawāriyy).

Noun

حواری • (havari)

1. (religion) disciple, apostle

Descendants

• Turkish: havari

Further reading

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “havari”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Persian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ha.waː.ˈriː/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.wɑː.ɾíː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.wɑː.ɾíː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.wɑː.ɾíː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.wɔː.ɾí]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hæ.vɒː.ɹíː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.vɔ.ɾí]

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

Noun

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

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

Descendants

• → Urdu: حَوَاری (havārī)

Further reading

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “حواری”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press.

Urdu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦə.ʋɑː.ɾiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: حَ‧وا‧ری

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 sense) a washerman; fuller
5. (rare) one who has white skin
6. a faithful / loyal person

Declension

Declension of حواری

	singular	plural
direct	حَوَاری (havārī)	حَوَاری (havārī)
oblique	حَوَاری (havārī)	حَوَارِیوں (havāriyõ)
vocative	حَوَاری (havārī)	حَوَارِیو (havāriyo)

Further reading

• “حواری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “حواری”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• 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
• Fallon, S. W. (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, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC