Eve

See also: eve, EVE, éve, Ève, Êve, and Eʋe

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ēv, IPA^(key): /iːv/

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• Rhymes: -iːv
• Homophones: eve, eave

Etymology 1

From Latin Eva, from Ancient Greek Εὔα (Eúa), from Biblical Hebrew חַוָּה (ḥawwā).

Proper noun

Eve

1. (Abrahamic religions) The first woman and mother of the human race; Adam's wife.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 3:20:

     And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

   • 1904, Mark Twain, Extracts from Adam's Diary:

     After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

2. An unspecified primordial woman, from whom many or all people are descended.

   The Seven Daughters of Eve; mitochondrial Eve

3. A female given name from Hebrew.
   • 1970, L.P.Hartley, My Sister's Keeper, page 113:

     "You were always a cynic," said Edith tolerantly. "I'm sure that Eve will want to have a baby - isn't that why we called her Eve?"

     "Of course not," said Herbert, as if the baby-cult had long been irritating him. "We called her Eve, or Evelyn, after your grandmother, who was going to leave, and did leave us some money."

4. An unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States.
5. An unincorporated community in Missouri, United States.

Related terms

• Ava, Eva, Evie, Evita, Evy

Translations

the first woman

• Arabic: حَوَّاء f (ḥawwāʔ)
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܚܘܐ

• Armenian: Եվա (Eva)
• Bashkir: Һауа (Hawa)
• Bengali: হাওয়া (haōẇa), হবা (hoba)
• Burmese: ဧဝ (ewa.)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 夏娃 (haa⁶ waa¹)

  Mandarin: 夏娃 (zh) (Xiàwá), 厄娃 (Èwá)

• Czech: Eva (cs) f
• Danish: Eva (da)
• Dutch: Eva (nl) f
• Esperanto: Evo
• Estonian: Eeva (et)
• Faroese: Eva f
• Finnish: Eeva (fi)
• French: Ève (fr) f
• German: Eva (de) f
• Greek: Εύα (el) f (Éva)

  Ancient: Εὔα f (Eúa)

• Hausa: Hauwa
• Hawaiian: ʻEwa
• Hebrew: חַוָּה (he) f (khavá)
• Hindi: हव्वा f (havvā), हौवा (hi) f (hauvā)
• Hungarian: Éva (hu)
• Irish: Éabha

  Old Irish: Eua f, Eba f

• Italian: Eva (it)
• Japanese: イブ (Ibu), イヴ (Ivu)
• Korean: 하와 (ko) (Hawa)
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• Latin: Eva f
• Latvian: Ieva f
• Lithuanian: Ieva f
• Malay: Hawa
• Maltese: Eva f
• Manx: Aaue f
• Ngazidja Comorian: Hawa
• Norman: Êve f
• Norwegian: Eva (no)
• Polish: Ewa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Eva (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਹੱਵਾ f (havvā), ਹਵਾ f (havā), ਈਵ f (īva)
• Russian: Е́ва (ru) f (Jéva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ева f

  Roman: Eva f

• Sinhalese: ඒව f (ēwa)
• Slovak: Eva f
• Spanish: Eva (es) f
• Swahili: Hawa
• Swedish: Eva (sv)
• Tagalog: Eba
• Tamil: ஏவாள் (ta) (ēvāḷ)
• Thai: อีฟ (èef)
• Tibetan: ཧ་ཝ (ha wa)
• Turkish: Havva (tr)
• Uzbek: Momo Havvo
• Welsh: Efa f
• Yiddish: חווה f (khave)
• Zazaki: Hewa f

given name

• Amharic: ሕይዋን (Hiywan)
• Ancient Greek: Εὕα f (Heúa)
• Arabic: حَوَّاء f (ḥawwāʔ), أِيف f (ʔīf)
• Armenian: Եվա (Eva)
• Belarusian: Е́ва f (Jéva)
• Burmese: ဧဝ (ewa.)
• Catalan: Eva (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夏娃 (zh) (Xiàwá), 伊夫 (Yīfū)

• Czech: Eva (cs) f
• Danish: Eva (da)
• Dutch: Eva (nl)
• Estonian: Eva
• Ewe: Xawa
• Faroese: Eva f
• Finnish: Eeva (fi)
• French: Ève (fr) f
• Galician: Eva (gl) f
• German: Eve f, Eva (de) f
• Greek: Εύα (el) f (Éva), Εύη (el) f (Évi)
• Hausa: Hauwa
• Hawaiian: ʻEwa
• Hebrew: חַוָּה (he) f (khavá)
• Icelandic: Eva
• Indonesian: Hava
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• Irish: Eábha
• Italian: Eva (it)
• Japanese: イブ (Ibu), イヴ (Ivu)
• Korean: 이브 (Ibeu)
• Kurdish:
• Latin: Eva
• Latvian: Ieva f
• Lithuanian: Ieva
• Malay: Hawa
• Norman: Êve f
• Norwegian: Eva
• Polish: Ewa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Eva (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਈਵ f (īva)
• Russian: Е́ва (ru) f (Jéva) (kognate), Ив f (Iv) (transliteration) (indeclinable)
• Scottish Gaelic: Eubha
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ева f

  Roman: Eva f

• Slovak: Eva f
• Spanish: Eva (es) f
• Swedish: Eva
• Turkish: Havva (tr)
• Zazaki: Hewa n

See also

• Chaim, Haim
• Evelyn
• Evette
• Lilith
• Zoë

Etymology 2

A pun on eavesdropper.

Proper noun

Eve

1. (cryptography) A conventional name for an agent attempting to intercept a message sent by Alice that is intended for Bob.

Etymology 3

Either a variant of Eaves or a matronymic from the given name.

Proper noun

Eve

1. An English surname

Anagrams

• EeV, Vee, vee

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Estonian

Etymology

Variant of Eva and a short form of Evelin.

Proper noun

Eve

1. a female given name.

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Swedish

Etymology 1

Short form of Evert and Evald, also a masculine form of Eva. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1904.

Proper noun

Eve c (genitive Eves)

1. a male given name.

Etymology 2

Variant of Eva and short form of Evelina.

Proper noun

Eve c (genitive Eves)

1. a female given name.