# Nun-Vav-Elif — نوا (nwA)

> Occurs in 1 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To weigh down, get up with hardship/difficulty, rise painfully, fall down from fatigue, grove under the burden.
- **Derived forms:** تَنُوأُ (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 28. Surah Al-Qasas, Verse 76

- **Form in this verse:** لَتَنُوٓأُ — latanūu · "would burden"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, feminine, singular · present tense

اِنَّ قَارُونَ كَانَ مِنْ قَوْمِ مُوسٰى فَبَغٰى عَلَيْهِمْۖ وَاٰتَيْنَاهُ مِنَ الْكُنُوزِ مَٓا اِنَّ مَفَاتِحَهُ لَتَنُٓوأُ بِالْعُصْبَةِ اُو۬لِي الْقُوَّةِۗ اِذْ قَالَ لَهُ قَوْمُهُ لَا تَفْرَحْ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ لَا يُحِبُّ الْفَرِح۪ينَ

Inna qaroona kana min qawmimoosa fabagha AAalayhim waataynahumina alkunoozi ma inna mafatihahu latanoo-obilAAusbati olee alquwwati ith qalalahu qawmuhu la tafrah inna Allaha layuhibbu alfariheen

Qārūn was of the people of Moses, but he oppressed them. And We had given him of treasures that whereof the keys weighed down a company of men endowed with strength. When his people said to him: “Exult thou not — God loves not the exultant —

_https://quran.so/surah-al-qasas/verse-76.md_

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