שווא

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, in Syriac a term for a sign consisting of two vertical dots used to separate parts of a sentence.

Noun

 * 1) the Hebrew diacritical mark shva ( ִ ◌ְ)
 * 2) schwa

Noun

 * 1) falsehood, futility
 * 2)  emptiness, vanity, uselessness, pointlessness