Eve

See also: eve, EVE, éve, Ève, Êve, and Eʋe

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ēv, IPA^(key): /iːv/

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• Rhymes: -iːv
• Homophones: eve, eave

Etymology 1

From Middle English Eve, Eue, from Old English Eue, Æue, from Latin Eva, from Ancient Greek Εὔα (Eúa), from Biblical Hebrew חַוָּה‎ (ḥawwā).

Proper noun

Eve

1. (Abrahamic religions) The first woman and mother of the human race; Adam's wife.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 3:20:

     And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

   • 1904, Mark Twain, 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.

2. An unspecified primordial woman, from whom many or all people are descended.

   The Seven Daughters of Eve; mitochondrial Eve

3. A female given name from Hebrew.
   • 1970, L.P.Hartley, My Sister's Keeper, page 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."

4. An unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States.
5. An unincorporated community in Missouri, United States.

Related terms

• Ava, Eva, Evie, Evita, Evy

Translations

the first woman

• Albanian: Eva f
• Arabic: حَوَّاء‎ (ar) f (ḥawwāʔ)
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܚܘܐ‎

• Armenian: Եվա (Eva)
• Azerbaijani: Həvva
• Bashkir: Һауа (Hava)
• Belarusian: Е́ва f (Jéva)
• Bengali: হাওয়া (bn) (haōẇa), হবা (hoba)
• Bulgarian: Е́ва f (Éva)
• Burmese: ဧဝ (ewa.)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 夏娃 (haa⁶ waa¹)

  Mandarin: 夏娃 (zh) (Xiàwá), 厄娃 (Èwá)

• Czech: Eva (cs) f
• Danish: Eva (da)
• Dutch: Eva (nl) f
• Esperanto: Evo
• Estonian: Eeva (et)
• Faroese: Eva f
• Finnish: Eeva (fi)
• French: Ève (fr) f
• Georgian: ევა (eva)
• German: Eva (de) f
• Greek: Εύα (el) f (Éva)

  Ancient: Εὔα f (Eúa)

• Hausa: Hauwa
• Hawaiian: ʻEwa
• Hebrew: חַוָּה‎ (he) f (khavá)
• Hindi: हव्वा f (havvā), हौवा (hi) f (hauvā)
• Hungarian: Éva (hu)
• Indonesian: Hawa (id)
• Irish: Éabha

  Old Irish: Eua f, Eba f

• Italian: Eva (it)
• Japanese: イブ (Ibu), イヴ (Ivu)
• Kazakh: Хауа (Xaua)
• Korean: 하와 (ko) (Hawa)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Hewa (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Обо (Obo)
• Latin: Eva f
• Latvian: Ieva f
• Lithuanian: Ieva f
• Macedonian: Ева (mk) f (Eva)
• Malay: Hawa
• Maltese: Eva f
• Manx: Aaue f
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Ева (Jeva)

• Ngazidja Comorian: Hawa
• Norman: Êve f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Eva (no) f

• Pashto: حوا‎ (ps) f (hawã)
• Persian: حوا‎ (fa) (havvâ)
• Polish: Ewa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Eva (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਹੱਵਾ f (havvā), ਹਵਾ f (havā), ਈਵ f (īva)
• Romanian: Eva f
• Russian: Е́ва (ru) f (Jéva)
• Scottish Gaelic: Eubha
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ева f

  Roman: Eva f

• Sinhalese: ඒව f (ēwa)
• Slovak: Eva f
• Slovene: Eva (sl) f
• Spanish: Eva (es) f
• Swahili: Hawa
• Swedish: Eva (sv)
• Tagalog: Eba
• Tajik: Ҳавво (Havvo)
• Tamil: ஏவாள் (ta) (ēvāḷ)
• Tatar: Хаува (Xawwa)
• Thai: อีฟ (èef), เอวา (wao)
• Tibetan: ཧ་ཝ (ha wa)
• Turkish: Havva (tr)
• Turkmen: How
• Ukrainian: Є́ва (uk) f (Jéva), Е́ва f (Éva)
• Uyghur: ھەۋۋا‎ (hewwa)
• Uzbek: Havvo
• Vietnamese: Ê-va
• Welsh: Efa f
• Yiddish: חווה‎ f (khave)
• Zazaki: Hewa f

given name

• Albanian: Eva
• Amharic: ሕይዋን (ḥəywan)
• Ancient Greek: Εὕα f (Heúa)
• Arabic: حَوَّاء‎ (ar) f (ḥawwāʔ), أِيف‎ f (ʔīf)
• Armenian: Եվա (Eva)
• Belarusian: Е́ва f (Jéva)
• Bengali: হাওয়া (bn) (haōẇa)
• Burmese: ဧဝ (ewa.)
• Catalan: Eva (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夏娃 (zh) (Xiàwá), 伊夫 (Yīfū)

• Czech: Eva (cs) f
• Danish: Eva (da)
• Dutch: Eva (nl)
• Estonian: Eva
• Ewe: Xawa
• Faroese: Eva f
• Finnish: Eeva (fi)
• French: Ève (fr) f
• Galician: Eva (gl) f
• German: Eve f, Eva (de) f
• Greek: Εύα (el) f (Éva), Εύη (el) f (Évi)
• Hausa: Hauwa
• Hawaiian: ʻEwa
• Hebrew: חַוָּה‎ (he) f (khavá)
• Hungarian: Éva (hu)
• Icelandic: Eva (is)
• Indonesian: Hava
• Irish: Éabha
• Italian: Eva (it)
• Japanese: イブ (Ibu), イヴ (Ivu)
• Korean: 이브 (Ibeu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Hawa (ku) f

• Latin: Eva
• Latvian: Ieva f
• Lithuanian: Ieva
• Malay: Hawa
• Norman: Êve f
• Norwegian: Eva
• Polish: Ewa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Eva (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਈਵ f (īva)
• Russian: Е́ва (ru) f (Jéva) (cognate), Ив (ru) f (Iv) (transliteration)
• Scottish Gaelic: Eubha
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ева f

  Roman: Eva f

• Slovak: Eva f
• Spanish: Eva (es) f
• Swedish: Eva (sv)
• Turkish: Havva (tr)
• Zazaki: Hewa n

See also

• Chaim, Haim
• Evelyn
• Evette
• Lilith
• Zoë

Etymology 2

A pun on eavesdropper.

Proper noun

Eve

1. (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 Eaves or a matronymic from the given name.

Proper noun

Eve

1. An English surname.

Anagrams

• EeV, Vee, vee

Estonian

Etymology

Variant of Eva and a short form of Evelin.

Proper noun

Eve

1. a female given name

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛv/

Proper noun

Eve f

1. Alternative form of Ève

Swedish

Etymology 1

Short form of Evert and Evald, also a masculine form of Eva. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1904.

Proper noun

Eve c (genitive Eves)

1. a male given name

Etymology 2

Variant of Eva and short form of Evelina.

Proper noun

Eve c (genitive Eves)

1. a female given name

Walloon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛf/

Proper noun

Eve

1. (biblical) Eve
2. a female given name