Homa may refer to:

Places

Ethiopia

Homa (woreda) Homa is one of the Aanaas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. It is part of the West Welega Zone. It was separated from Gimbi (woreda), Gimbi woreda. It is bounded by Haru in the east,Lalo Asabi in the west and Genji in the south. The administrative ...

, a district in Oromia Region, Ethiopia

Kenya

Homa Bay Homa Bay is a town (and eponymous bay) on the south shore of Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria, in western Kenya. It lies near Mount Homa (in the Luo language ''Got Marahuma'' or ''God Uma'' famous mountain" and Ruma National Park, the latter note ...

, a town and a bay on the shore of Lake Victoria in Kenya * Homa Mountain, a volcano near Homa Bay, Kenya

Iran

Chal Homa Chal Homa (, also Romanized as Chāl Homā; also known as Chālmeh and Chhālma) is a village in Hendudur Rural District, Sarband District, Shazand County, Markazi Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and al ...

, Markazi, Iran * Homa, Iran, a village in Lorestan Province, Iran *

Homa-ye Bala (disambiguation) Homa-ye Bala may refer to: * Homag-e Bala Homag-e Bala (, also Romanized as Homāg-e Bālā; also known as Homāk, Homāy, Homā-ye Bālā, Homay Olya, and Mīrū) is a village in Siyahu Rural District, Fin District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormoz ...

, places in Iran *

Homag (disambiguation) Homag (), or Homak or Homay or Homa may refer to: * Homay, East Azerbaijan * Homag-e Bala, Hormozgan Province * Homag-e Pain, Hormozgan Province * Homay, Iran (disambiguation) {{geodis ...

, various places in Iran *

Homay, Iran (disambiguation) Homay (), also rendered as Umay or Umai or Homa, in Iran may refer to: * Homay-e Olya * Homay-e Sofla * Homag (disambiguation) Homag (), or Homak or Homay or Homa may refer to: * Homay, East Azerbaijan * Homag-e Bala, Hormozgan Province * Homag-e P ...

, various places in Iran

Israel

Har Homa Har Homa (, lit ''Wall Mountain''), officially Homat Shmuel, is an Israeli settlement in southern East Jerusalem, near the Palestinian city of Beit Sahour. The settlement is also referred to as "Jabal Abu Ghneim" (also "Jabal Abu Ghunaym"), ...

, East Jerusalem neighborhood, Israel

United States

* Homa Hills, Wyoming *

La Homa, Texas La Homa is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. The population was 11,267 at the 2020 United States Census. It is part of the McAllen– Edinburg–Mission Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography La ...

, U.S.

People

People with the given name Homa

* Homa Arjomand (born 1952), Iranian political activist * Homa Darabi (1994–1940), Iranian pediatrician, academic, and political activist * Homa Vafaie Farley, Iranian-born potter and ceramist *

Homa Hoodfar Homa Hoodfar () is a Canadian-Iranian sociocultural anthropologist and professor emerita of anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal. While she is most widely known for her work on Western perceptions of the veil or hijab in its varied form ...

, Canadian-Iranian sociocultural anthropologist *

Homa Katouzian Homa Katouzian (Persian: همايون کاتوزیان; born Homayoun Katouzian on 17 November 1942) is an economist, historian, sociologist and literary critic, with a special interest in Iranian studies. Katouzian's formal academic training wa ...

(born 1942), Iranian economist, historian, sociologist and literary critic *

Homa Mirafshar Homa Mirafshar (born February 23, 1937) is an Iranian poet and songwriter based in the United States. She is considered among the finest Persian lyricists in Iranian pop and traditional music. Iranian famous musicians such as Manoucher Chesh ...

(born 1946), Iranian-born American poet and songwriter *

Homa Nategh Homa Nategh (; May 26, 1934 – January 1, 2016) was an Iranian historian, Professor of History at University of Tehran. A specialist in the contemporary history of Iran, she resided in Paris, France, until her death. She was active during ...

(1934–2016), Iranian historian * Homa Sarshar (born 1946), Iranian-American author, activist, media personality * Homa Shaibany (born c. 1913), Iranian surgeon, first female surgeon in Iran * Homa Rousta (1946–2015), Iranian film and stage actress

People with the surname Homa

Bernard Homa Bernard Homa (1900 – September 1991) was a British medical doctor and politician, who served on London County Council. Born in Whitechapel as Bernard Deichowsky, he was educated at the Yeshivah Etz Chaim in Aldgate, then studied medicine. D ...

(1900–1991), British medical doctor and politician *

Max Homa John Maxwell Homa (born November 19, 1990) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He reached the top five in the Official World Golf Ranking in 2023. During his amateur career at the University of California, Berkeley, he ...

(born 1990), American professional golfer on the PGA Tour *

Peter Homa Peter Michael Homa is a British health service manager. He started work in the National Health Service in 1979 as a hospital porter after which he commenced the NHS National Management Training Scheme in London in 1981 and was chief executive a ...

, British health service manager

Musical groups

Stay Homas Stay Homas is a Catalan musical trio created due to the preventive lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the spring of 2020. Its members are: Klaus Stroink (trumpet player in Buhos, Nil Moliner, and Horny Section, and voice actor), Guillem ...

Tex La Homa Tex La Homa is a Dorset, UK-based post-rock project formed in the year 2000 by Matthew Shaw (guitar, keyboards, vocals, other instruments). The music combines "soft vocals with sort of distortion, surrounded by soft melodies, guitars and a bi ...

Other uses

Homa (ritual) In Indian religions, a homa (Sanskrit: होम), also known as havan, is a fire ritual performed on special occasions. In Hinduism, by a Hindu priest usually for a homeowner (" grihastha": one possessing a home). The grihasth keeps differ ...

, a religious practice in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, involving making offerings into a consecrated fire * ''Homa'' (genus), an insect genus in the tribe

Empoascini Empoascini is a tribe of leafhoppers in the subfamily Typhlocybinae Typhlocybinae is a subfamily of insects in the leafhopper, leafhopper family, Cicadellidae. This is currently the second largest leafhopper subfamily based on the number of de ...

Homa (mythology) The Huma (, pronounced ''Homā'', ), also Homa or Homay, is a mythical bird of Iranian legends and fables, and continuing as a common motif in Sufi and Diwan poetry. Although there are many legends of the creature, common to all is that the bird ...

, a bird creature of Persian mythology *

Homa language Homa is an extinct South Sudanese Bantu language of uncertain affiliation. It has been included in the Boan languages Boan (Buan, ''Ababuan'') is a proposed intermediate group of Bantu languages coded Zones C and D in Guthrie's classification. ...

, an extinct Bantu language of South Sudan * Another spelling for

Haoma (; Avestan: ) is a divine plant in Zoroastrianism and in later Persian culture and Persian mythology, mythology. has its origins in Indo-Iranian religion and is the cognate of Vedas, Vedic . Etymology Both Avestan and Sanskrit derived from Pr ...

in Zoroastrianism * Homa F.C., a professional league football club based in Tehran, Iran *

Homeostatic model assessment In biology, homeostasis (British also homoeostasis; ) is the state of steady internal physical and chemical conditions maintained by living systems. This is the condition of optimal functioning for the organism and includes many variables, s ...

, a medical formula for quantifying insulin resistance * Harmonic Oscillator Model of Aromaticity, a method for quantifying aromaticity *

Iran Air Iran Air, officially known as The Airline of the Islamic Republic of Iran (), or before known as The National Airline of Iran (), is the flag carrier of Iran, which is headquartered at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran. As of 2024, it operates sched ...

's acronym, in Persian-language * Homa Darabi foundation, founded by Parvin Darabi *

Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Hochelaga-Maisonneuve () is a neighbourhood in Montreal, Canada, situated in the east end of the island, generally to the south of the city's Olympic Stadium and east of downtown. Historically a poor neighbourhood, it has experienced significant ...

, neighborhood of Montreal, Canada colloquially known as "HoMa" in short form * Staff of Homa (), a polearm weapon in the RPG game

Genshin Impact ''Genshin Impact'' is a 2020 action role-playing game produced by MiHoYo, MiHoYo/HoYoverse. The game features an anime-style open world environment and an action-based Role-playing battle systems, battle system using Classical element, element ...

* Viraja Homa, Hindu fire-sacrifice ceremony