Arwa ( ar, أروى) is an
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C ...
feminine name. It means "gracefulness and beauty", "satisfied", and “fresh".
People
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Arwa bint Abdul Muttalib, an aunt of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
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Arwa bint Kurayz, cousin of Muhammad and mother of Uthman
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Arwa bint al-Harith
Arwā bint al-Ḥārith ( ar, أروى بنت الحارث) was a eloquence and rhetoric sahabiya and the cousin of Muhammad and Ali. She was the daughter of Al-Harith ibn Abd al-Muttalib
Al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ( ar, الحا ...
, relative of Muhammad
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Arwa bint Mansur al-Himyari
Arwā bint Manṣūr al-Ḥimyarī ( ar, أروى بنت منصور الحميرى) also known as Umm Mūsā ( ar, ام موسى) was the famous principal wife of Abbasid caliph al-Mansur (r. 754–775) and mother of third Abbasid caliph al-Mahdi ...
(735–died 764), wife of Abbasid caliph al-Mansur, who ruled the Islamic world from 754 to 775, and mother of third Abbasid caliph al-Mahdi
* ''Arwa bint Harun al-Rashid'', was the daughter of Abbasid caliph
Harun al-Rashid
Abu Ja'far Harun ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi ( ar
, أبو جعفر هارون ابن محمد المهدي) or Harun ibn al-Mahdi (; or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as Harun al-Rashid ( ar, هَارُون الرَشِيد, translit=Hārūn ...
, her mother was Hulab. She was also half sister of Caliph
al-Amin and
al-Ma'mun
Abu al-Abbas Abdallah ibn Harun al-Rashid ( ar, أبو العباس عبد الله بن هارون الرشيد, Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hārūn ar-Rashīd; 14 September 786 – 9 August 833), better known by his regnal name Al-Ma'mu ...
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Umm Jamil, also known as Arwā, wife of Abū Lahab
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Arwa (singer), Yemeni singer
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Arwa al-Sulayhi, queen of Yemen 1067–1138
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Arwa Damon
Arwa Damon (born September 19, 1977) is an American journalist who is a senior international correspondent for CNN, based in Istanbul. From 2003, she covered the Middle East as a freelance journalist, before joining CNN in 2006. She is also pre ...
, news journalist
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Arwa Othman, Yemeni writer, journalist, human rights activist and former Minister of Culture
Places
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Arwa (village), a village in Saudi Arabia
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Arwa (mountain), a mountain in southern Saudi Arabia
Other
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Arwa (water), a bottled water brand by the Coca-Cola Company
* ARWA, the honorific used by an
Associate of the Royal West of England Academy
The Royal West of England Academy (RWA) is Bristol's oldest art gallery, located in Clifton, Bristol, Clifton, Bristol, near the junction of Queens Road and Whiteladies Road. Situated in a Grade 2* listed building, it hosts five galleries and an ...
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Arabic feminine given names