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ḥawwāraẗ حَوَّارة (ḥawāraẗ ?), also ḥuwwārà
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ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ḤWR
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cretaceous rock; chalk – WehrCowan1979.
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Etymology not clear. May depend either on ‘(marked contrast between black and) white’ (↗ḥawar) or on ‘hollowness’ (cf. discussion in ↗ḤWR_14, ↗Ḥawrān, ↗maḥār).
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▪ No direct cognates. For the (most probable) wider context, see ↗ḥawar ‘(marked contrast between black and) white’ and, for the whole picture, ↗ḤWR.
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▪ There is no certain etymology for ‘cretaceous rock, chalk’ yet. It may have been called ḥaw(w)āraẗ or ḥawwārà after its whiteness, or a contrast between its whiteness and a dark surrounding. In this case it would be dependent on ↗ḥawar. The root ḤWR shows, however, also a basic meaning of ‘hollowness’, not to be found in MSA any longer, but cf. ClassAr ḥawr †‘bottom (of a well etc.)’, so that one could think of the cretaceous rock as the *‘hollow’ rock. A connection with ‘white’ seems more plausible, but there can be no final judgment on the matter.
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