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Hamr (folklore)
Hamr is the Old Norse word for skin, shape, or form, central to Norse shapeshifting folklore: Odin's shape-changing in Ynglinga saga, the wolf-coats of Völsunga saga, and terms like hamrammr, hamhleypa, and hamstoli.
Hamraaz
Hamraaz (हमराज़, 1967) is a Hindi mystery thriller directed and produced by B.R. Chopra, starring Sunil Dutt, Raaj Kumar, Vimi, and Mumtaz, with music by Ravi and lyrics by Sahir Ludhianvi; it won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. Distinct from Khurshid Anwar's 1967 Pakistani Urdu film of the same name.
Hamriyah IPP power station
The Hamriyah IPP power station, also called the Hamriyah Independent Power Plant, is a 1.8 GW gas-fired combined cycle plant in Sharjah, the UAE's first independent one.
Hamrock-Dowson film thickness equation
The Hamrock-Dowson film thickness equation is a regression formula predicting minimum lubricant film thickness in elastohydrodynamic elliptical contacts, derived from numerical solutions and published in 1977.
Hamsa (خمسة)
The hamsa (خمسة) is a hand-shaped amulet worn against the evil eye, known as the Hand of Fatima to Muslims and the Hand of Miriam to Jews.
Hamsa Damayanti
Hamsa Damayanti, also titled Damayanti and the Hamsa, is an 1899 oil painting by the Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma, showing Damayanti listening to a celestial swan messenger.
Hamsaduta
Haṃsadūta (हंसदूत, "The Swan Messenger") is a 16th-century Sanskrit messenger poem by Rūpa Gosvāmin, in which Rādhā sends a swan with her message to Kṛṣṇa.
Hamsalekha (ಹಂಸಲೇಖ)
Hamsalekha (ಹಂಸಲೇಖ), born Gangaraju in 1951, is a Kannada film music director and lyricist, called Nadabrahma, with 300-plus films, a 1995 National Film Award for Panchakshari Gavayi, and the Ravichandran Premaloka partnership.
Hamse
Hamse (خمسه) is a collection of five masnavis, or narrative poems in rhyming couplets, by one poet in classical Persian and Turkish literature, first applied to Nizami Ganjavi's works.
Hamster
Hamster, subfamily Cricetinae: 18 species of stocky, burrowing Palearctic rodents with cheek pouches. Includes the pet Syrian hamster, domesticated from one 1931 litter, and the Critically Endangered European hamster.
Hamster & Gretel
Hamster & Gretel: Disney Channel animated superhero comedy by Dan Povenmire, 2022-2025, two seasons. Gretel and her pet hamster Hamster gain alien superpowers; brother Kevin is skipped over.
Hamstring
Hamstrings: biceps femoris, semitendinosus, and semimembranosus, the posterior thigh muscles that flex the knee and extend the hip. Commonly strained during sprinting late swing; Nordic hamstring exercise cuts injury rates about 51%.
Hamtaro
Hamtaro (Tottoko Hamutaro, とっとこハム太郎) is a Japanese children's franchise by Ritsuko Kawai about a pet golden hamster and the Ham-Hams. Manga began 1997; the TV Tokyo anime ran 296 episodes from 2000 to 2006, with four films and heavy merchandising.
Hamtaro (とっとこハム太郎) (video game series)
Hamtaro (とっとこハム太郎) video game series: Nintendo-published games based on the Hamtaro anime, 2000-2011, on Game Boy Color, GBA, DS, and iOS, known for the Ham-Chat word-learning puzzle mechanic and titles like Ham-Ham Heartbreak.
Hamtramck, Michigan
Hamtramck, Michigan: a 2-square-mile Detroit enclave in Wayne County; 27,261 residents (2025 est.), 46.7% foreign-born, first all-Muslim US city council (2021), Polish industrial history, and recent election-fraud investigations.
Hamura Zoological Park
Hamura Zoological Park (羽村市動物公園, Hinotonton Zoo) is Japan's first town-run zoo, opened May 1978 in Hamura, western Tokyo; 42,100 m² site, about 89 species, contact exhibits, over 10 million cumulative visitors, operated by Yokohama Hakkeijima since 2008.
Hamutal
Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, was a queen consort of Judah, wife of King Josiah and mother of the kings Jehoahaz and Zedekiah in the late seventh century BC.
Hamvira Deva
Hamvira Deva (ହାମ୍ବୀର ଦେବ) was a crown prince and general of the Gajapati kingdom of Odisha, eldest son of Kapilendra Deva, who captured Warangal in 1460 and later revolted against his brother Purushottamadeva.
Hamycin
Hamycin, a heptaene polyene antifungal antibiotic from Streptomyces pimprina, marketed in India from 1963 for Candida infections; ergosterol-binding, toxic, later liposomized, now discontinued.
Hamza (همزة)
Hamza (همزة), the Arabic glottal stop /ʔ/ written ء or on seats أ إ ؤ ئ; not one of the 28 alphabet letters, governed by strongest-vowel seat rules, added late to a hamza-less Hijazi script.
Hamza Abdelkarim
Hamza Abdelkarim (حمزة عبد الكريم), born 2008 in Cairo, Egyptian centre-forward; Al Ahly academy product, joined FC Barcelona in 2026 for €1.5m, Egypt's youngest 2026 World Cup squad member.
Hamza al-Alawi
Hamza al-Alawi (العلوي أبو محمد حمزة بن العباس بن علي), byname Burtala, was a Sufi master and hadith narrator of Isfahan, styled "the great shaykh," who died in 516 AH.
Hamza al-Zayyat
Hamza al-Zayyat (حمزة بن حبيب, 699–773 CE) was a Kufan Quran reader whose recitation is the sixth of the Ten canonical readings, known for its demanding sakt and six-count prolongation.
Hamza Ali Abbasi (حمزہ علی عباسی)
Hamza Ali Abbasi (حمزہ علی عباسی), born 1984, is a Pakistani actor, director, and former CSS police officer famous as Afzal in Pyarey Afzal and Noori Natt in The Legend of Maula Jatt.
Hamza Bendelladj
Hamza Bendelladj, aka Bx1, is an Algerian hacker co-developer and marketer of the SpyEye banking trojan; arrested in Bangkok in 2013, extradited to the US, and sentenced in 2016 to 15 years in prison.
Hamza bin Laden
Hamza bin Laden (born 1989, Jeddah), son of Osama bin Laden and Khairia Sabar; al-Qa'ida member announced by Zawahiri in 2015, US SDGT in 2017, killed in a US counterterrorism operation in 2019.
Hamza Choudhury (হামজা চৌধুরী)
Hamza Choudhury (হামজা চৌধুরী), Bangladeshi midfielder born 1997 in Leicester; 21 years at Leicester City (FA Cup 2021, Championship 2023/24), now Sheffield United and Bangladesh national team.
Hamza ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Muhallabi
Hamza ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Muhallabi was a fifth-century AH hadith transmitter and physician of Nishapur, graded trustworthy, whose students included al-Hakim al-Naysaburi and Abu Bakr al-Bayhaqi.
Hamza ibn al-Qasim al-Hashimi
Hamza ibn al-Qasim al-Hashimi (حمزة بن القاسم الهاشمي) was a trustworthy Sunni hadith transmitter of Baghdad, descended from al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, who led prayer in the Mansur and Rusafa mosques and died in 335 AH.
Hamza ibn Muhammad al-Baghdadi
Hamza ibn Muhammad al-Baghdadi (حمزة بن محمد بن طاهر أبو طاهر البغدادي) was a Sunni hadith scholar of Baghdad, born in 976 and died in 1033.