Quran glossary · draft

حوي

internal entrails

The coiled internal organs of an animal.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: حوي

Lemmas: حوايا

Forms: حَوَايَآ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

6:146

وَعَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ هَادُوا۟ حَرَّمْنَا كُلَّ ذِى ظُفُرٍ وَمِنَ ٱلْبَقَرِ وَٱلْغَنَمِ حَرَّمْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ شُحُومَهُمَآ إِلَّا مَا حَمَلَتْ ظُهُورُهُمَآ أَوِ ٱلْحَوَايَآ أَوْ مَا ٱخْتَلَطَ بِعَظْمٍ ذَٰلِكَ جَزَيْنَٰهُم بِبَغْيِهِمْ وَإِنَّا لَصَٰدِقُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

The plural حَوَايَا names internal animal coils that may carry fat. The color adjective أَحْوَى instead qualifies spent pasture after it becomes dry refuse. The anatomical referent and the vegetation color-state cannot substitute for one another in their Quranic frames, so the color adjective is isolated as an exact lexical collision.