Awa (given name)
Awa (or Hawa) is an African feminine given name derived from Eve, Notable people with the name include:
- Awa Marie Coll Seck (born 1951), Senegalese Executive Director of The Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership
- Awa Dioum-Ndiaye (born 1961), Senegalese retired female track and field athlete
- Awa Gueye (born August 1978), Senegalese women's basketball player
- Hawa Ghasia, Tanzanian politician
- Hawa Yakubu (1948–2007), Ghanaian politician
- Zainab Hawa Bangura, Sierra Leona politician
Awa is also a New Zealand Māori word that means 'river' often used in given names or part of a name. It can appear in both female and male names. An example of this name use is; Te Awanui Reeder from the band Nesian Mystik. Te Awaunui, can be directly translated as 'The Big River' or 'The Main River'.
References
- ↑ '100 Māori words every New Zealander should know', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/maori-language-week/100-maori-words, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 18-Aug-2014
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