Tharwat (name)

Tharwat or Sarwat (Arabic or Urdu: ثروت) is a given name and surname derived from the Arabic word (tharwa ثروة) meaning treasure. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Tharwat Abaza (1927–2002), Egyptian journalist and novelist
• Tharwat Alhajjaj (born 1973), Paralympic weightlifter from Jordan
• Tharwat Bassily (1940–2017), Egyptian businessman
• Tharwat Bendary (born 1970), Egyptian weightlifter
• Sarwat Gilani (born 1982), Pakistani model and film, television and voice actress
• Sarwat Nazir, Pakistani fiction and screen writer
• Tharwat Okasha (1921–2012), Egyptian writer, translator and government official

Surname

• Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha (1873–1928), Egyptian politician
• Zubaida Tharwat (1940–2016), Egyptian film, stage and television actress

See also

• Servet, the Turkish and Albanian form of Tharwat