حواری

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

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

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

• → Urdu: حَوَاری (havārī)

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

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

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

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) a washerman; fuller
5. (rare) one who has white skin
6. a faithful / loyal person[1]

• “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, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “حواری”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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• S. W. Fallon (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