diff --git a/dev-python/narwhals/Manifest b/dev-python/narwhals/Manifest
index 073cd94b462f9..88fd3edcc0099 100644
--- a/dev-python/narwhals/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/narwhals/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST narwhals-2.1.2.tar.gz 533772 BLAKE2B 3a2d4508c1c50625484e0d5a056e5a11445a31a209ed485896b9b25f6c88b5cdd288382659caa1a508496de7e2214e775aac2f8c71e38c35957b6c7cfff7859c SHA512 3ad8b45b6187fea5c0ad10563818583a2e4bad72865deb5fb8f9134bacfdb304a41b0be43095a36830db0c01793bc4c13900242ca5191c5a0518fe481f74ebb7
+DIST narwhals-2.2.0.tar.gz 547070 BLAKE2B 6edf4d94f79a3ee643bd9a16ad320a825ef693ba3f791dc0cbcf3d55c9212fbfde53a4f5482855de31554693b06170f97dc6af295f31838d1a4274f392710f69 SHA512 5999feb61590743ca1359ce6c38785dea90b48757a037985578b981322a5456a79e613649556f1d5d4fd92caa0bdd561d14e82281166be39b21eee87143979c5
diff --git a/dev-python/narwhals/narwhals-2.2.0.ebuild b/dev-python/narwhals/narwhals-2.2.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..12a565968cde2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/narwhals/narwhals-2.2.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# Copyright 2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=hatchling
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..13} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 pypi
+
+DESCRIPTION="Extremely lightweight compatibility layer between dataframe libraries"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/narwhals-dev/narwhals/
+	https://pypi.org/project/narwhals/
+"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		>=dev-python/pandas-1.1.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/pyarrow-13.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+EPYTEST_PLUGINS=( hypothesis pytest-env )
+EPYTEST_XDIST=1
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_test() {
+	local EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
+		# segfaults
+		# https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/47252
+		'tests/modern_polars/unpivot_test.py::test_unpivot[pyarrow]'
+		# fragile to parallel merges that can cause non-atomic .dist-info
+		# changes
+		tests/system_info_test.py::test_get_sys_info
+	)
+
+	epytest --runslow --constructors="pandas,pandas[nullable],pandas[pyarrow],pyarrow"
+}