# Kh-Vav-Ye — خوي (xwy)

> Occurs in 5 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** Become empty/vacant/unoccupied, become devoid or destitute of it's occupants (a place), fall down or become demolished, become empty of food (hunger in the belly), call or cry out, seize/take/carry off by force, make a space between one's upper arms and sides in prostration, lower the eyes or look towards the ground and desiring to be silent, dig a hole or hollow in the ground, abstain from food, lose reason or intellect, take away another person's possession.
- **Derived forms:** خَاوِيَة (5)

## Verses containing this root

### 2. Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 259

- **Form in this verse:** خَاوِيَةٌ — khāwiyatun · "(had) overturned"
  - **Grammar:** noun · active · feminine · nominative case · indefinite

اَوْ كَالَّذ۪ي مَرَّ عَلٰى قَرْيَةٍ وَهِيَ خَاوِيَةٌ عَلٰى عُرُوشِهَاۚ قَالَ اَنّٰى يُحْـي۪ هٰذِهِ اللّٰهُ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَاۚ فَاَمَاتَهُ اللّٰهُ مِائَةَ عَامٍ ثُمَّ بَعَثَهُۜ قَالَ كَمْ لَبِثْتَۜ قَالَ لَبِثْتُ يَوْماً اَوْ بَعْضَ يَوْمٍۜ قَالَ بَلْ لَبِثْتَ مِائَةَ عَامٍ فَانْظُرْ اِلٰى طَعَامِكَ وَشَرَابِكَ لَمْ يَتَسَنَّهْۚ وَانْظُرْ اِلٰى حِمَارِكَ وَلِنَجْعَلَكَ اٰيَةً لِلنَّاسِ وَانْظُرْ اِلَى الْعِظَامِ كَيْفَ نُنْشِزُهَا ثُمَّ نَكْسُوهَا لَحْماًۜ فَلَمَّا تَبَيَّنَ لَهُۙ قَالَ اَعْلَمُ اَنَّ اللّٰهَ عَلٰى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَد۪يرٌ

Aw kallathee marra AAalaqaryatin wahiya khawiyatun AAala AAurooshihaqala anna yuhyee hathihi AllahubaAAda mawtiha faamatahu Allahu mi-ata AAaminthumma baAAathahu qala kam labithta qala labithtuyawman aw baAAda yawmin qala bal labithta mi-ata AAaminfanthur ila taAAamikawasharabika lam yatasannah wanthurila himarika walinajAAalaka ayatan linnasiwanthur ila alAAithamikayfa nunshizuha thumma naksooha lahmanfalamma tabayyana lahu qala aAAlamu anna AllahaAAala kulli shay-in qadeer

Or like one passing by a town when it was desolate: he said: “How will God give life to this after its death?” So God caused him to die a hundred years; then He raised him up. He said: “How long hast thou tarried?” Said he: “I have tarried a day, or part of a day.” He said: “Nay, thou hast tarried a hundred years. Look thou at thy food and drink: they are not spoiled. And look thou at thy donkey — and We will make thee a proof for mankind — and look thou at the bones: how We restore them to life, then We clothe them with flesh.” And when it had become clear to him, said he: “I know that God is over all things powerful.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-baqarah/verse-259.md_

### 18. Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 42

- **Form in this verse:** خَاوِيَةٌ — khāwiyatun · "collapsed"
  - **Grammar:** noun · active · feminine · nominative case · indefinite

وَاُح۪يطَ بِثَمَرِه۪ فَاَصْبَحَ يُقَلِّبُ كَفَّيْهِ عَلٰى مَٓا اَنْفَقَ ف۪يهَا وَهِيَ خَاوِيَةٌ عَلٰى عُرُوشِهَا وَيَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَن۪ي لَمْ اُشْرِكْ بِرَبّ۪ٓي اَحَداً

Waoheeta bithamarihi faasbahayuqallibu kaffayhi AAala ma anfaqa feehawahiya khawiyatun AAala AAurooshihawayaqoolu ya laytanee lam oshrik birabbee ahada

And encompassed were his fruits; and he began to wring his hands for all that he had spent therein, but it was desolate and in ruins. And he said: “Would that I had not ascribed a partnership with my Lord to anyone!”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-kahf/verse-42.md_

### 22. Surah Al-Hajj, Verse 45

- **Form in this verse:** خَاوِيَةٌ — khāwiyatun · "fell"
  - **Grammar:** noun · active · feminine · nominative case · indefinite

فَكَاَيِّنْ مِنْ قَرْيَةٍ اَهْلَكْنَاهَا وَهِيَ ظَالِمَةٌ فَهِيَ خَاوِيَةٌ عَلٰى عُرُوشِهَا وَبِئْرٍ مُعَطَّـلَةٍ وَقَصْرٍ مَش۪يدٍ

Fakaayyin min qaryatin ahlaknahawahiya thalimatun fahiya khawiyatunAAala AAurooshiha wabi/rin muAAattalatinwaqasrin masheed

And how many a city did We destroy when it was doing wrong and is desolate! — and a deserted well[...]! and a lofty castle[...]!

_https://quran.so/surah-al-hajj/verse-45.md_

### 27. Surah An-Naml, Verse 52

- **Form in this verse:** خَاوِيَةًۢ — khāwiyatan · "ruined"
  - **Grammar:** noun · active · feminine · accusative case · indefinite

فَتِلْكَ بُيُوتُهُمْ خَاوِيَةً بِمَا ظَلَمُواۜ اِنَّ ف۪ي ذٰلِكَ لَاٰيَةً لِقَوْمٍ يَعْلَمُونَ

Fatilka buyootuhum khawiyatan bimathalamoo inna fee thalika laayatanliqawmin yaAAlamoon

So those are their houses, desolate because of the wrong they did; in that is a proof for people who know.

_https://quran.so/surah-an-naml/verse-52.md_

### 69. Surah Al-Haqqah, Verse 7

- **Form in this verse:** خَاوِيَةٍۢ — khāwiyatin · "hollow"
  - **Grammar:** adjective · active · feminine · genitive case · indefinite

سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَانِيَةَ اَيَّامٍۙ حُسُوماً فَتَرَى الْقَوْمَ ف۪يهَا صَرْعٰىۙ كَاَنَّهُمْ اَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍۚ

Sakhkharaha AAalayhim sabAAa layalinwathamaniyata ayyamin husooman fataraalqawma feeha sarAAa kaannahum aAAjazunakhlin khawiya

Which He compelled against them seven nights and eight days without let; and thou mightest see the people therein lying prostrate like stumps of hollow date-palms.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-haqqah/verse-7.md_

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