Etymology

Hawara

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Today it means: A member of an Amazigh tribe that settled in Egypt and was known for breeding horses and serving as cavalry. Full definition →

Arabic هَوَارَة ← Demotic Egyptian ḥw.t-wr.t ← Egyptian ḥwt
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The story

  1. Egyptian · derived fromḥwt“enclosure, mansion”
  2. Demotic Egyptian · derived fromḥw.t-wr.t“the great mansion”
  3. Arabic · borrowed fromهَوَارَة
  4. English todayHawara

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”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.