# Kh-Vav-Ra — خور (xwr)

> Occurs in 2 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** Utter a cry/low or bellow (primarily a bull or cattle), to bend/turn/incline towards someone, become weak/feeble/languid, soft or fragile, become faint/remit or abate, - [in a camel that is drinking, khawar denotes or implies a quality that is praised; i.e. Patient enduring of thirst and fatigue: and a quality dispraised as well; i.e. The Lacking patience to endure thirst and fatigue. (TA)] - interrogate, unable to endure difficulty or distress, act cowardly.
- **Derived forms:** خُوَار (2)

## Verses containing this root

### 7. Surah Al-A'raf, Verse 148

- **Form in this verse:** خُوَارٌ ۚ — khuwārun · "(had) a lowing sound"
  - **Grammar:** noun · noun-verb · masculine · nominative case · indefinite

وَاتَّخَذَ قَوْمُ مُوسٰى مِنْ بَعْدِه۪ مِنْ حُلِيِّهِمْ عِجْلاً جَسَداً لَهُ خُوَارٌۜ  اَلَمْ يَرَوْا اَنَّهُ لَا يُكَلِّمُهُمْ وَلَا يَهْد۪يهِمْ سَب۪يلاًۢ اِتَّخَذُوهُ وَكَانُوا ظَالِم۪ينَ

Wattakhatha qawmu moosamin baAAdihi min huliyyihim AAijlan jasadan lahu khuwarunalam yaraw annahu la yukallimuhum wala yahdeehimsabeelan ittakhathoohu wakanoo thalimeen

And the people of Moses, while he was away, took up a calf out of their ornaments — a body that lowed. Did they not consider that it spoke not to them, neither guided them to a path? They took it up, and were wrongdoers.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-araf/verse-148.md_

### 20. Surah Taha, Verse 88

- **Form in this verse:** خُوَارٌۭ — khuwārun · "a lowing sound"
  - **Grammar:** noun · noun-verb · masculine · nominative case · indefinite

فَاَخْرَجَ لَهُمْ عِجْلاً جَسَداً لَهُ خُوَارٌ فَقَالُوا هٰذَٓا اِلٰهُكُمْ وَاِلٰهُ مُوسٰى فَنَسِيَۜ

Faakhraja lahum AAijlan jasadan lahu khuwarunfaqaloo hatha ilahukum wa-ilahu moosafanasiy

And he brought forth for them a calf as a body that lowed; and they said: “This is your god, and the god of Moses, but he forgot.”

_https://quran.so/surah-taha/verse-88.md_

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