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The middle daughter of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. The one who enjoys reading and marries Fyedka.
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This is the name of the titular golem in The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker. It's a historical fantasy set in late 19th century New York.
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My name is Chava Marie pronounced ha-vuh. My parents got the name from the movie Fiddler on the Roof. And I'll tell you life has been hard with the silent C. I love my name I just wish I had changed the spelling legally 40 years ago.
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Also spelled Chavah
Diminutive is Chavy or Chavi.
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Diminutive is Chavy or Chavi.
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The pronuonciation is "kha-va". [noted -ed]
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Sounds too close to “chavvy”. I can’t even read the Hebrew pronunciation.
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The name Chava was given to 95 baby girls born in the US in 2012.
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Chava Alberstein--Israeli folk musician.
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Chava is not the Hebrew version of Eve. Eve is the English version of Chava.
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It sounds nice with the Hebrew pronunciation, but Chava would cause bullying in England because it looks like that nasty word "chav" used to describe lower-class people.
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I don't know why it says it's Modern Hebrew. Chava is the form used in the Hebrew Bible. [noted -ed]
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I like this a lot. It doesn't have the Christian connotations of "Eve," "Ava" or any of those variants, and it doesn't look like it would be pronounced "Have-a" like "Hava." I imagine it with a gutteral "H" sound like Channah or Chaim, but I like the hard "K" sound better.
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It comes from the same Hebrew root word as "life" and "breath."
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Chav is not a good word to have in a name.
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Chava is not pronounced the same as Chav. It's a hard Ch sound made from the back of your throat (like in the Hebrew phrase l'chaim).
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This can also be a Spanish / Mexican male short form of the name Salvador, in which case it's pronounced CHAH:-bah:.
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Pronounced khah-vah.
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My best friend's name is Chava. Actually, it's Chava Maeve, plus tons of extra middle names.
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Chava was the first woman on earth, the wife of Adam. It is my middle name, and it's just as beautiful as my first.
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The third daughter in Joseph Stein's "Fiddler on the Roof" bears this name.
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