# Hawara

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. 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.

## Etymology
From Arabic هَوَارَة (hawāra) which in turn is from Demotic Egyptian ḥw.t-wr.t (“the great mansion”), from Egyptian ḥwt (“enclosure, mansion”) + wrt (“large, great”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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