Ava in Arabic: How to Write آفا, Letter by Letter

Ava in Arabic is آفا, which reads back as Aafa. Ava has no Arabic form of its own, so Arabic spells its sound, here with three letters: alif madda, fāʾ and alif. آفا is how Arabic Wikipedia writes two of the four people called Ava that we checked.

Copy آفا from the first row of the table. Any other rows hold the other spellings Arabic Wikipedia uses for Ava, or a related Arabic name. The Listen button reads each one in your device's Arabic voice, if it has one.

Ava in Arabic calligraphy: آفا in three styles

Three renders of آفا, in Amiri, Katibeh and Noto Nastaliq Urdu, drawn straight from the font files.

How Arabic Wikipedia spells Ava

We looked up the Arabic Wikipedia articles of four well-known people called Ava. Their titles write the name as آفا twice, أفا once and إيفا once. Our name tool gives آفا, the spelling of Ava Gardner's article.

Why آفا is spelled this way

Ava is spelled by its sound, and Arabic has no letter for some English sounds, so each choice below follows a rule. آفا starts with the letter آ, alif madda. One letter, آ alif madda, never joins the letter after it, so آفا always shows one small gap.

• The opening long a is alif madda, آ, an alif with a wavy line that marks a long ā at the start of a word.
• Arabic has no v, so the v is fāʾ, ف, and the final a is alif, ا.
• Arabic Wikipedia's titles vary: آفا for Ava Gardner and Ava Michelle, أفا, with a short a, for the singer Ava Max, and إيفا for the director Ava DuVernay.

What does Ava mean?

Ava began as a variant of Eve, according to Behind the Name. The actor Ava Gardner made it known. It rose sharply after 1997 and entered the top ten for girls in the US, the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Since Ava started as Eve, its Arabic relative is حواء, Ḥawwāʾ: see Eve in Arabic. Ava was the ninth most common name given to girls born in the US in 2024, according to the Social Security Administration's announced 2024 list.

Two related names on this site are Eve in Arabic, حواء and Emma in Arabic, إيما. For Arabic names to choose from, browse the Arabic girl names with their meanings, part of our Arabic vocabulary lists.

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