Hiwi
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Hiwi refer to:
- Hiwi peopleHiwi peopleThe Hiwi call themselves the “people of the savannah” for the vast flatlands they inhabit between the Meta and Vichada rivers in Colombia. In Venezuela, the Hiwi live in the states of Apure, Guarico, Bolivar, and Amazonas. Seventeenth and eighteenth century historians described the Hiwi as nomadic...
- hiwi (volunteer)Hiwi (volunteer)Hiwi is a German abbreviation. It has two meanings, "voluntary assistant" and "assistant scientist" .- :...
, a GermanGerman languageGerman is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
word for volunteer assistant - Hiwi al-BalkhiHiwi al-BalkhiHiwi al-Balkhi was an exegete and Biblical critic of the last quarter of the ninth century, born at Balkh, Khorasan . It is not entirely clear whether Hiwi was a Jew, as suggested by , or whether he was perhaps a member of a gnostic Christian sect...
, the first Jewish Bible critic