Ḥamawī () or (al-Hamawi, al-Hammawi) is an Arabic name and surname from the Arabic root (ḥamā ح م ى) meaning protection or defense (to protect, to guard), for example: حمى الوطن = “He protected the homeland”, indicating bravery and selflessness.
It can also refer to father-in-law in Modern Standard Arabic, also (حماي ḥamāi).
“Al-ḥamma / Al-ḥammah (الحمّة)” also means natural hot springs, and is used for several places to indicate protection, like:
Hamma (District), Algeria. Hama (Sohag), Egypt. Hamma, Tunisia. Hama, Syria.
Notable people with the name and surname include:
Amin Al-Hamawi (born 2003), Iraqi footballer Hamma Hammami (born 1952), Tunisian politician Sa'd al-Din al-Hamawi (1190–1252), Persian Sufi writer Mohamad Al Hamawi (born 1984), Syrian footballer Yaqut al-Hamawi (1179–1229), Muslim scholar of European Byzantine ancestry in the late Abbasid period
The surname is of Jewish Sephardic origin in modern-day Spain and Portugal before the inquisition of 1492. https://jewishgen.org/databases/sephardic/SephardimComNames.html
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