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hawā(1˚for A. هَوَاءِ , fr. هَوَي 'to blow,' etc.;—2˚for A. هَوًي , fr. هَوِيَ 'to love'), s.f. Air, atmosphere, ether, the space between heaven and earth;—air, wind, gentle gale;—a gas;—flight;—an aerial being; spirit, fiend;—sound, tone;—rumour, report;—credit, good name;—affection, favour, love, mind, desire, passionate fondness; lust, carnal desire, concupiscence;—an empty or worthless thing:—hawāuṛnā(-kī), (A thing) to get wind, report to go forth; to be reported or promulgated:—hawāukhaṛnā(-kī), To get a bad name;—to lose credit:—hawā ānā(-meṅ), The wind or air to come (into); to be ventilated (as a room, etc.):—hawābāṅdh-ke jānā, v.n. To beat to windward; to sail against the wind:—hawābāṅdhnā, To make a name;—to boast, brag;—to invent; to romance:—hawābatānā(-ko?), To reject a petition; to put off; to disappoint:—hawābadalnā, v.n. The wind to change or veer round; (fig.) to undergo a change of condition:—hawābigaṛnā, v.n. The air to be corrupted or poisoned;—to get a bad name, etc. (i.q. hawāukhaṛnā):—hawābandhnā, v.n. A name to be got or won;—to appear:—hawā-bandīkarnā, v.n. To build castles in the air;—to make current false reports (about), to calumniate:—hawā-bojh-nāp, s.m. A barometer:—hawābhar-jānā(-meṅ), To be filled with air; to be blown or inflated;—to be puffed up;—(one's) head to be turned:—hawā-parast, adj. & s.m. 'Worshipping (or a worshipper of) the air'; given to vanity, or ambition, or sensuality; vain; fickle; giddy, volatile;—a vain person, etc.:—hawāphirnā, or hawāpalaṭnā, v.n.=hawābadalnā, q.v.:—hawājānnā, v.t. 'To regard as air, or as empty breath'; to set at naught:—hawā-ćakkī, s.f. A windmill:—hawā ćalnā, The wind to blow:—hawāćhoṛnā, hawā ćhuṛānā, or hawāuṛānā, v.n. To break wind:—hawā-ḵẖẉāh, adj. & s.m. Desirous of vanities; vain; ambitious; fond of pleasure;—a vain, or an ambitious, man; one who is fond of pleasure;—a well-wisher, friend; lover:—hawā-ḵẖẉāhī, s.f. Well-wishing; goodwill, friendship:—hawā-ḥirs̤, s.m. Lust and greed; covetousness, greediness; envy:—hawā-dār, adj. & s.m. Having, or following, the wind; airy; open; flighty; saucy;—a well-wisher, an affectionate friend; a lover;—the seat placed on an elephant (to ride in);—a movable throne on which kings took the air:—hawā-dārī, s.f. Airiness;—love, affection, liking:—hawādekhākarnā, To keep observing the wind; to see how the wind blows or sits; (fig.) to watch the state of affairs; to notice how things are tending:—hawādenā(-ko), To give air (to); to let in the air;—to air (clothes, etc.);—to blow (a fire);—to foment (a quarrel):—hawā-zadagī, s.f. Cold (in the head); rheum, defluxion; catarrh:—hawā-sā, adj. (f. -sī), Like the air; light as air:—hawā-sī ćīzoṅ-kībāharī ćāl, (Physics) Exosmose of gases:—hawā-se bāt (or bāteṅ) karnā, 'To hold converse with the air'; to have the head raised high; to be very tall, or elevated;—to rival the wind in speed; to outstrip the wind:—hawā-se laṛnā, v.n. 'To quarrel with the wind'; to be quarrelsome; to seek occasion for quarrel:—hawā-kāruḵẖbatānā, v.t. To cast to the winds:—hawā-kānalīnikās, s.m. (Physics) Transpiration of gases:—hawākarnā, v.t. To fan; to ventilate;—to broach, divulge, disclose, publish:—havā-ko girah-meṅbāṅdhnā, 'To chain the wind'; to attempt an impossibility:—hawākhānā, To breathe the air; to take an airing;—to walk about idly, to lounge or saunter about;—to walk away, go away, be off (e.g. hawākhā`o, 'take your way, be off'):—hawā-ke babūle phoṛnā, 'To break airy bubbles'; to build castles in the air:—hawā-ke rukh jānā, v.n. To sail with the wind:—hawā-ke ghoṛe-par sawār honā, 'To be mounted on the wings (lit.horses) of the wind'; to be moving or going with great speed or velocity;—to be in a great hurry:—hawā-gīr, s.m. A rocket-maker:—hawālagnā(-ko), The air to reach or get (to); to get air; to feel the air or breeze (of, -kī);—to be struck by a wind or blast;—to have rheumatism, or palsy;—to have the head turned (by):—hawā-nikās, s.m. A ventilator:—hawā-o-hawas, or hawā-hawas, s.f. The desires and lusts of the flesh; lust, concupiscence, sensuality; luxury; vanity; ambition:—hawāho-jānā, v.n. To fly with the velocity of the wind; to run with the wind;—to scamper off, to vanish, disappear:—ulṭītijāratīhawā, s.f. Adverse trade-wind:—ćaubā`īhawā, s.f. A wind blowing from all sides:—dnuru mandīhawā, s.f. Polar calm.
Origin: Persian