# Ha-Vav-Ye — حوي (Hwy)

> Occurs in 2 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/Hwy

- **Meaning:** To be or become dark green or dark red or brown or black and dried up by reason of oldness. To collect/bring/draw/gather a thing together, grasp a thing, get or gain possession of a thing, take possession of a thing, hold a thing within ones grasp or possession, possess a thing, comprise or comprehend or contain something, to turn a thing around, to wind a thing, assume a round or circular form, to coil, to make a small watering trough or tank for ones camels, to have or assume a roundness or circularity [or the state of being coiled].
- **Derived forms:** أَحْوَىٰ (1) · حَوَايَا (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 6. Surah Al-An'am, Verse 146

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْحَوَايَآ — l-ḥawāyā · "the entrails"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine, plural · nominative case

وَعَلَى الَّذ۪ينَ هَادُوا حَرَّمْنَا كُلَّ ذ۪ي ظُفُرٍۚ وَمِنَ الْبَقَرِ وَالْغَنَمِ حَرَّمْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ شُحُومَهُمَٓا اِلَّا مَا حَمَلَتْ ظُهُورُهُمَٓا اَوِ الْحَوَايَٓا اَوْ مَا اخْتَلَطَ بِعَظْمٍۜ ذٰلِكَ جَزَيْنَاهُمْ بِبَغْيِهِمْۘ وَاِنَّا لَصَادِقُونَ

WaAAala allatheena hadooharramna kulla thee thufurinwamina albaqari walghanami harramnaAAalayhim shuhoomahuma illa ma hamalatthuhooruhuma awi alhawayaaw ma ikhtalata biAAathmin thalikajazaynahum bibaghyihim wa-inna lasadiqoon

And to those who hold to Judaism We made unlawful every animal with a claw; and of oxen and sheep We made unlawful to them the fat thereof save what their backs bear, or the entrails, or what is mixed with bone; that We rewarded them for their sectarian zealotry; and We are truthful.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-anam/verse-146.md_

### 87. Surah Al-A'la, Verse 5

- **Form in this verse:** أَحْوَىٰ — aḥwā · "dark"
  - **Grammar:** adjective · masculine, singular · accusative case · indefinite

فَجَعَلَهُ غُثَٓاءً اَحْوٰىۜ

FajaAAalahu ghuthaan ahwa

Then made it blackening decaying herbage

_https://quran.so/surah-al-ala/verse-5.md_

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