Hawara (term)
Hawara, or Haberer, is a term used in Austria and Bavaria that describes a good friend.
Etymology
The term comes from Yiddish: חבֿר, romanized: Chawer and literally means friend or buddy.[1][2][3]
Usage
It's used widely in Austria and Bavaria and can mean best friend, drinking buddy (Bavarian: Saufbruada) or comrade. In Vienna, the term is also used to refer to one's lover, where it's written and pronounced Habschi and in Styria Hawi.[4]
However, hawara has also gained a negative meaning, with terms like Hawarei or Mochthawara standing for political nepotism. Hawara itself is also used negatively on its own.[4]
When Wolfgang Teuschl translated the New Testament into Viennese German in 1971, he gave his version the name Da Jesus und seine Hawara, 'Jesus and his friends'.[5]
References
- ↑ Leo Rosten: Jiddisch. Eine kleine Enzyklopädie. dtv, München 2006, S. 133.
- ↑ Wilhelm Gesenius: Hebräisches und Aramäisches Handwörterbuch über das Alte Testament, Leipzig 1895, S. 221 (online).
- ↑ Vgl. Günter Vallaster, Ulrich Ammon: Variantenwörterbuch des Deutschen – Die Standardsprache in Österreich, der Schweiz und Deutschland sowie in Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Ostbelgien und Südtirol. De Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2004, ISBN 3-11-016574-0, S. 320.
- 1 2 "Mein Freund, der Haberer". Jüdische Allgemeine. Archived from the original on 2011-08-18. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
- ↑ Wehle, Peter (2012). Sprechen Sie Wienerisch? [Do you speak Viennese?] (in German). Vienna: Ueberreuter. p. 165. ISBN 978-3-8000-7544-7.