Homa may refer to:
Places
Ethiopia
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Homa (woreda) Homa is one of the Aanaas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. It is part of the West Welega Zone. It was separated from Gimbi woreda. It is bounded by Haru in the east, Lalo Asabi in the west and Genji in the south. The administrative center for this ...
, a district in Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Kenya
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Homa Bay
Homa Bay is a town (and eponymous bay) on the south shore of Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria, in western Kenya. It lies near Mount Homa (in the Luo language ''Got Marahuma'' or ''God Uma'' famous mountain" and Ruma National Park, the latter noted ...
, a town and a bay on the shore of Lake Victoria in Kenya
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Homa Mountain
Homa may refer to:
Places Ethiopia
* Homa (woreda), a district in Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Kenya
* Homa Bay, a town and a bay on the shore of Lake Victoria in Kenya
* Homa Mountain, a volcano near Homa Bay, Kenya
Iran
* Chal Homa, Mark ...
, a volcano near Homa Bay, Kenya
Iran
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Chal Homa,
Markazi, Iran
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Homa, Iran
Homa ( fa, هما, also Romanized as Homā, Huma, and Hūmeh; also known as Qal‘eh Huma and Qal‘eh-ye Hūmeh) is a village in Farsesh Rural District, in the Central District of Aligudarz County, Lorestan Province, Iran
Iran, ...
, a village in Lorestan Province, Iran
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Homa, North Khorasan, Iran, a village
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Homa-ye Bala (disambiguation) Homa-ye Bala may refer to:
* Homag-e Bala
Homag-e Bala ( fa, هماگ بالا, also Romanized as Homāg-e Bālā; also known as Homāk, Homāy, Homā-ye Bālā, Homay Olya, and Mīrū) is a village in Siyahu Rural District, Fin District, Bandar ...
, places in Iran
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Homag (disambiguation) Homag ( fa, هماگ), or Homak or Homay or Homa may refer to:
* Homay, East Azerbaijan
* Homag-e Bala, Hormozgan Province
* Homag-e Pain, Hormozgan Province
* Homay, Iran (disambiguation)
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, various places in Iran
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Homay, Iran (disambiguation) Homay ( fa, هماي), also rendered as Umay or Umai or Homa, in Iran may refer to:
* Homay-e Olya
* Homay-e Sofla
* Homag (disambiguation) Homag ( fa, هماگ), or Homak or Homay or Homa may refer to:
* Homay, East Azerbaijan
* Homag-e Bala, Ho ...
, various places in Iran
Israel
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Har Homa
Har Homa ( he, הר חומה, lit ''Wall Mountain''), officially Homat Shmuel, is an Israeli settlement in southern East Jerusalem, near the Palestinian city of Beit Sahour. The settlement is also referred to as "Jabal Abu Ghneim" (also "J ...
, East Jerusalem neighborhood, Israel
United States
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Homa Hills, Wyoming
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La Homa, Texas, U.S.
People
People with the given name Homa
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Homa Arjomand
Homa Arjomand (born 1952) is an Iranian political activist, resident in Canada, where she is a member of the International Campaign against the Sharia Court and the Director of Children First Now.
She has received the "Humanist of the Year" award ...
(born 1952), Iranian political activist
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Homa Darabi
Homa Darabi ( fa, هما دارابی; 1940–1994) was an Iranian pediatrician, academic, and political activist affiliated with the Nation Party of Iran. She is known for her political self-immolation in protest to the compulsory hijab, whi ...
(1994–1940), Iranian pediatrician, academic, and political activist
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Homa Vafaie Farley
Homa Vafaie Farley () is an Iranian-born potter and ceramics designer. She lives in Abu Dhabi.
Biography
Homa Farley was born in Tehran, Iran. She grew up near Mount Damavand. As a teenager she decided to move to the United Kingdom to study E ...
, Iranian-born potter and ceramist
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Homa Hoodfar
Homa Hoodfar ( fa, هما هودفر) is a Canadian-Iranian sociocultural anthropologist and professor emerita of anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal. While she is most widely known for her work on Western perceptions of the veil or ...
, Canadian-Iranian sociocultural anthropologist
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Homa Katouzian
Homa Katouzian (Persian: همايون کاتوزیان; born Homayoun Katouzian on 17 November 1942) is an economist, historian, sociologist and literary critic, with a special interest in Iranian studies. Katouzian's formal academic training wa ...
(born 1942), Iranian economist, historian, sociologist and literary critic
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Homa Mirafshar
Homa Mirafshar (born May 24, 1946) is a prominent Iranian poet and songwriter based in the United States.
She is considered the best Persian lyricist regarding to Iranian Pop and Traditional Music producers, singers and writers.
Iranian musi ...
(born 1946), Iranian-born American poet and songwriter
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Homa Nategh
Homa Nategh ( fa, هما ناطق; May 26, 1934 – January 1, 2016) was an Iranian historian, Professor of History at University of Tehran. A specialist in the contemporary history of Iran, she resided in Paris, France, until her death. She ...
(1934–2016), Iranian historian
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Homa Sarshar
Homa Sarshar ( fa, هما سرشار; also Romanized as ''Homā Sarshār''; born 1946) is an Iranian-American author, activist, media personality, and award-winning journalist. She was a columnist for Zan-e-Ruz magazine and the Kayhan daily news ...
(born 1946), Iranian-American author, activist, media personality
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Homa Shaibany
Homa Shaibany (born in Tehran, Iran circa 1913), was Iran's first female surgeon.
In 1930, she received a scholarship to study medicine at London University and received a bachelor's degree in anatomy and morphology. She received her M.B.B.S. in ...
(born c. 1913), Iranian surgeon, first female surgeon in Iran
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Homa Rousta
Homa Rousta ( fa, هما روستا ; 26 September 1946 – 26 September 2015) was an Iranian film and stage actress. She was the widow of stage director Hamid Samandarian.
She graduated with a degree in theatre from the School of Dram ...
(1946–2015), Iranian film and stage actress
People with the surname Homa
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Bernard Homa
Bernard Homa (1900 – September 1991) was a British medical doctor and politician, who served on London County Council.
Born in Whitechapel as Bernard Deichowsky, he was educated at the Yeshivah Etz Chaim in Aldgate, then studied medicine. D ...
(1900–1991), British medical doctor and politician
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Max Homa
John Maxwell Homa (born November 19, 1990) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. In college, he won the individual 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship. As a professional he has won five times on the PGA Tour.
Ear ...
(born 1990), American professional golfer on the PGA Tour
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Peter Homa
Peter Michael Homa is a British health service manager.
He started work in the National Health Service in 1979 as a hospital porter after which he commenced the NHS National Management Training Scheme in London in 1981 and was chief executive a ...
, British health service manager
Musical groups
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Stay Homas
Stay Homas are a Spanish musical trio created as a result of the preventive lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19 in spring 2020. There are three members in the group: Klaus Stroink (trumpet player in Buhos, Nil Moliner and Horny Section, and ...
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Tex La Homa
Tex La Homa is a Dorset, UK-based post-rock project formed in the year 2000 by Matthew Shaw (guitar, keyboards, vocals, other instruments). The music combines "soft vocals with sort of distortion, surrounded by soft melodies, guitars and a bit ...
Other uses
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Homa (ritual)
In the Vedic Hinduism, a homa (Sanskrit: होम) also known as havan, is a fire ritual performed on special occasions by a Hindu priest usually for a homeowner (" grihastha": one possessing a home). The grihasth keeps different kinds of fire ...
, a religious practice in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, involving making offerings into a consecrated fire
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''Homa'' (genus), an insect genus in the tribe
Empoascini
Empoascini is a tribe of leafhoppers in the subfamily Typhlocybinae.
Genera
* '' Afrasca''
* '' Afroccidens''
* '' Alafrasca''
* '' Alebrasca''
* '' Alebroides''
* ''Amrasca''
* '' Apheliona''
* '' Asepodiva''
* '' Asymmetrasca''
* '' Austroa ...
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Homa (mythology)
The Huma ( fa, هما, pronounced ''Homā'', ae, script=latn, Homāio), also Homa, is a mythical bird of Iranian legends and fables,
and continuing as a common motif in Sufi and Diwan poetry. Although there are many legends of the creature, c ...
, a bird creature of
Persian mythology
Persian mythology or Iranian mythology (Persian:اساطیرشناسی ایرانی) is the body of the myths originally told by ancient Persians and other Iranian peoples, and a genre of Ancient Persian folklore. These stories concern the origi ...
* Another spelling for
Haoma
''Haoma'' (; Avestan: 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀) is a divine plant in Zoroastrianism and in later Persian culture and mythology. ''Haoma'' has its origins in Indo-Iranian religion and is the cognate of Vedic ''soma''.
Etymology
Both Avestan ''haoma'' ...
in Zoroastrianism
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Homa F.C.
Homa Football Club (, ''Hema'') is an Iranian football club based in Tehran, Iran. They currently play in the Tehran Provincial Leagues.
The club has a long and rich history and has always been associated and owned by Iran's national airline c ...
, a professional league football club based in Tehran, Iran
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Homeostatic model assessment The homeostatic model assessment (HOMA) is a method used to quantify insulin resistance and beta-cell function. It was first described under the name HOMA by Matthews ''et al.'' in 1985.
Derivation
The HOMA authors used data from physiological stud ...
, a medical formula for quantifying insulin resistance
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Harmonic Oscillator Model of Aromaticity
An aromatic ring current is an effect observed in aromatic molecules such as benzene and naphthalene. If a magnetic field is directed perpendicular to the plane of the aromatic system, a ring current is induced in the delocalized π electrons ...
, a method for quantifying aromaticity
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Iran Air
The National Airline of Iran ( fa, هواپیمايی ملی ایران, Havâpeymâyi-ye Melli-ye Irân), branded as Iran Air, is the flag carrier of Iran, which is headquartered at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran. As of 2018, it operates scheduled ...
's acronym, in Persian-language
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Homa Darabi
Homa Darabi ( fa, هما دارابی; 1940–1994) was an Iranian pediatrician, academic, and political activist affiliated with the Nation Party of Iran. She is known for her political self-immolation in protest to the compulsory hijab, whi ...
foundation, founded by Parvin Darabi
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Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
Hochelaga-Maisonneuve () is a neighbourhood in Montreal, Canada, situated in the east end of the island, generally to the south of the city's Olympic Stadium and east of downtown.
Historically a poor neighbourhood, it has experienced significant ...
, neighborhood of Montreal, Canada colloquially known as "HoMa" in short form
* Staff of Homa (), a polearm weapon in the RPG game
Genshin Impact
''Genshin Impact'' is an action role-playing game developed and published by miHoYo. It was released for Android (operating system), Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, and Windows in 2020, on PlayStation 5 in 2021, and is set for release on Nintendo ...
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Viraja Homa
The Viraja Homa is a Hindu fire-sacrifice which is performed during the ceremonies whereby a Hindu monk takes up the vows of renunciation (''Sannyasa''). The ''Viraja Homa'' is thus part of the full ''Sannyasa Deeksha'' (monastic initiation). Thi ...
, Hindu fire-sacrifice ceremony
See also
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Haoma
''Haoma'' (; Avestan: 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀) is a divine plant in Zoroastrianism and in later Persian culture and mythology. ''Haoma'' has its origins in Indo-Iranian religion and is the cognate of Vedic ''soma''.
Etymology
Both Avestan ''haoma'' ...
, Avestan language name of a plant and its divinity
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Huma (disambiguation)
Huma or HUMA may refer to:
Geography
* Huma, a village in Samuil Municipality, Razgrad Province, Bulgaria
* Huma, Iran, a village in Lorestan Province, Iran
* Huma County, a county of Daxing'anling Prefecture in Heilongjiang, China
* Huma Ri ...
, which has several different meanings
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Houma (disambiguation), which has several different meanings
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