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A village in Egypt, and an Ancient Egyptian site near it, south of Crocodilopolis / Arsinoe, with a pyramid and a necropolis in which the Fayum mummy portraits were found.
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noun
A member of an Amazigh tribe that settled in Egypt and was known for breeding horses and serving as cavalry.
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History
From Arabic هَوَارَة (hawāra) which in turn is from Demotic Egyptian ḥw.t-wr.t (“the great mansion”), from Egyptian ḥwt (“enclosure, mansion”) + wrt (“large, great”).
