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Eve
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Appendix:Variations of "eve"
English
Pronunciation
ēv, en /iːv/
en en-uk-Eve.ogg UK
en iːv 1
en eve eave
Etymology 1
From en enm Eve, enm Eue, from en ang Ēua, ang Ēfe, from en la Eva, from en grc Εὔα, from en hbo חַוָּה ḥawwā.
Proper noun
en Q830183en Abrahamism biblical character The first woman and mother of the human race; Adam's wife.
Genesis 3 20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
en 1904 w:Mark Twain s:Extracts from Adam's Diary After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
An unspecified primordial woman, from whom many or all people are descended.
en The Seven Daughters of Eve; Mitochondrial Eve
en female Hebrew.
en 1970 L.P.Hartley My Sister's Keeper 113 "You were always a cynic," said Edith tolerantly. "I'm sure that Eve will want to have a baby - isn't that why we called her Eve?""Of course not," said Herbert, as if the baby-cult had long been irritating him. "We called her Eve, or Evelyn, after your grandmother, who was going to leave, and did leave us some money."
en unincorporated community s/Kentucky c/US.
en unincorporated community s/Missouri c/US.
Derived terms
en Adam and Eve Eveless Eve green know someone from Eve New Eve Mitochondrial Eve sister of Eve True Eve
Related terms
en Ava, en Eva, en Evie, en Evita, en Evy
Translations
the first woman
Albanian: sq Eva f
Arabic: ar حَوَّاء f
Aramaic:
Syriac: syc ܚܘܐ
Armenian: hy Եվա
Azerbaijani: az Həvva
Bashkir: ba Һауа
Belarusian: be Е́ва f
Bengali: bn হাওয়া, bn হবা
Bulgarian: bg Е́ва f
Burmese: my ဧဝ
Cherokee: chr ᎢᏫ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 夏娃 haa6 waa1
Dungan: dng Хэва
Mandarin: cmn 夏娃 Xiàwá, cmn 厄娃 Èwá
Comorian:
Ngazidja Comorian: zdj Hawa
Coptic: cop ⲉⲩϩⲁ
Czech: cs Eva f
Danish: da Eva
Dutch: nl Eva f
Esperanto: eo Evo
Estonian: et Eeva
Faroese: fo Eva f
Finnish: fi Eeva
French: fr Ève f
Georgian: ka ევა
German: de Eva f
Gothic: got 𐌰𐌹𐍅𐍅𐌰 f
Greek: el Εύα f
Ancient Greek: grc Εὔα f
Hausa: ha Hauwa
Hawaiian: haw ʻEwa
Hebrew: he חַוָּה f khavá
Hindi: hi हव्वा f
Hungarian: hu Éva
Indonesian: id Hawa
Irish: ga Éabha
Old Irish: sga Eua f
Italian: it Eva
Japanese: ja イブ Ibu, ja イヴ Ivu
Kazakh: kk Хауа
Korean: ko ^하와
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Hewa
Kyrgyz: ky Обо
Latin: la Eva f
Latvian: lv Ieva f
Lithuanian: lt Ievà f
Macedonian: mk Ева f
Malay: ms Hawa
Maltese: mt Eva f
Manx: gv Aaue f
Marathi: mr हव्वा f
Middle English: enm Eve
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Ева
Norman: nrf Êve f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Eva f
Pashto: ps حوا f hawã
Persian: fa حوا havvâ
Polish: pl Ewa f
Portuguese: pt Eva f
Punjabi: pa ਹੱਵਾ f, pa ਹਵਾ f, pa ਈਵ f
Romanian: ro Eva f
Russian: ru Е́ва f
Scottish Gaelic: gd Eubha
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Ева f
Latin: sh Eva f
Sinhalese: si ඒව f
Slovak: sk Eva f
Slovene: sl Eva f
Spanish: es Eva f
Swahili: sw Hawa
Swedish: sv Eva
Tagalog: tl Eba
Tajik: tg Ҳавво
Tamil: ta ஏவாள்
Tatar: tt Хаува
Thai: th อีฟ èef, th เอวา
Tibetan: bo ཧ་ཝ
Turkish: tr Havva
Turkmen: tk How
Ukrainian: uk Є́ва f, uk Е́ва f
Uyghur: ug ھەۋۋا
Uzbek: uz Havvo
Vietnamese: vi Ê-va
Welsh: cy Efa f
Yiddish: yi חווה f khave
Zazaki: zza Hewa f
given name
Albanian: sq Eva
Amharic: am ሕይዋን
Arabic: ar حَوَّاء f, ar أِيف f
Armenian: hy Եվա
Belarusian: be Е́ва f
Bengali: bn হাওয়া
Burmese: my ဧဝ
Catalan: ca Eva
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 伊芙 Yīfú, cmn 伊夫 Yīfū
Czech: cs Eva f
Danish: da Eva
Dutch: nl Eva
Estonian: et Eva
Ewe: ee Xawa
Faroese: fo Eva f
Finnish: fi Eeva
French: fr Ève f
Galician: gl Eva f
German: de Eve f, de Eva f
Greek: el Εύα f, el Εύη f
Ancient Greek: grc Εὕα f
Hausa: ha Hauwa
Hawaiian: haw ʻEwa
Hebrew: he חַוָּה f khavá
Hindi: hi ईव f
Hungarian: hu Éva
Icelandic: is Eva
Indonesian: id Hava
Irish: ga Éabha
Italian: it Eva
Japanese: ja イブ Ibu, ja イヴ Ivu
Korean: ko ^이브
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Hawa f
Latin: la Eva
Latvian: lv Ieva f
Lithuanian: lt Ievà
Malay: ms Hawa
Norman: nrf Êve f
Norwegian: no Eve Eva
Polish: pl Ewa f
Portuguese: pt Eva f
Punjabi: pa ਈਵ f
Russian: ru Е́ва f cognate, ru Ив f transliteration
Scottish Gaelic: gd Eubha
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Ева f
Latin: sh Eva f
Slovak: sk Eva f
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: hsb Jěwa f
Spanish: es Eva f
Swedish: sv Eva
Turkish: tr Havva
Zazaki: zza Hewa n
See also
en Chaim, en Haim
en Evelyn
en Evette
en Lilith
en Zoë
Etymology 2
A pun on en eavesdropper.
Proper noun
en cryptography A conventional name for an agent attempting to intercept a message sent by Alice that is intended for Bob.
Etymology 3
Either a variant of en Eaves or a matronymic from the given name.
Proper noun
en English.
Etymology 4
Proper noun
en Ewe.
Anagrams
en eev EeV Vee vee
Estonian
Etymology
Variant of et Eva and a short form of et Evelin.
Proper noun
et proper noun
et female
French
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
fr Ève
Middle English
Alternative forms
enm Eva
Etymology
From enm ang Ēfe and enm fro Eve,326 from enm la Eva (which the form enm Eva is influenced by), from enm grc Εὔᾱ, from enm hbo חַוָּה ḥawwā́.
Pronunciation
enm /ˈeːv(ə)/ /ˈeːvaː/ II 127 647
Proper noun
enm Eve Q830183Ēve n MED14686
Descendants
en Eve
gmw-msc Eve
sco Eve
References
enm Biblical characters
Swedish
Etymology 1
Short form of sv Evert and sv Evald, also a masculine form of sv Eva. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1904.
Proper noun
c
sv male
Etymology 2
Variant of sv Eva and short form of sv Evelina.
Proper noun
c
sv female
Walloon
Pronunciation
wa /ɛf/
Proper noun
wa proper noun
wa biblical character Eve
wa female